Simply Trinity Quotes

“It is one thing to say (as we have) that the economic reveals the immanent to a degree and in a specific way—the sending of the Son reflecting the eternal generation of the Son, for example. But it is an altogether different thing to say that the economic constitutes the immanent, or that anything and everything in the economic (suffering, submission) is to be projected back into the immanent, as if what distinguishes Father from Son from Spirit are his actions in the world…. While God’s acts in history may reveal something of his triune identity, he in no way depends on history for his triune identity, nor should all that occurs in history be projected onto the Trinity’s immanent, eternal identity.”
― Matthew Barrett, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit

“God does not plan salvation and leave it up to us, hoping we will believe and persevere to the end. No, God’s grace gives us every assurance that what he planned he will accomplish in us. He is that sovereign.”
― Matthew Barrett, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit

“For all our healthy focus on what God has done to save us, we might talk and talk and talk about our salvation and forget to talk about the gospel’s ultimate object of adoration: the triune God himself. The gospel is supposed to move us beyond ourselves to know God and who he is in and of himself. For all our focus on what God does for us, we sometimes forget who he is apart from us and why there is no gospel at all without the latter.”
― Matthew Barrett, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit