The Trinity Orchestrates the Symphony of Salvation Together

We talked about the Trinity in Core last Thursday. In the introduction to a collection of essays called, From Heaven He Came and Sought Her, David and Jonathan Gibson wrote about how the Trinity is involved in salvation on page 49. They quoted Fred Sanders.

The Trinity orchestrates the symphony of salvation in all its movements: the Father elects and sends, the Son becomes incarnate and dies, the Spirit draws and vivifies. But while their works are distinct they are not independent: the Father elects in Christ, the incarnate Son offers himself on the cross through the eternal Spirit to the Father, and the Spirit is sent by the Father and the Son to draw and seal the elect. Grounded in the mutual indwelling of their persons, the Father, Son, and Spirit together serve the shared goal of our salvation. "The Spirit serves the Son by applying what he accomplished, and the Son serves the Spirit by making his indwelling possible. Both Son and Spirit, together on their twofold mission from the Father, serve the Father and mister to us." (Fred Sanders, Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything, p. 149)