| In the last few decades, the academic community has experienced a crescendo of interest and produced a plethora of writing on Trinitarian theology, with many ancient orthodox affirmations as well as practical application for the Church and daily life. However, a lack of connection seems to exist between the scholarly material and actual Trinitarian teaching, preaching, and worship in most Christian churches, thus presenting itself as imbalanced attention to and emphasis on the three persons of the triune God. As a result, believers' fullest understanding of and responses to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are extremely limited.;The purpose of the research was to evaluate the cognitive, behavioral, and experiential changes in the worship experiences and personal lives of participants at Centenary United Methodist Church in Clemmons, North Carolina, as a result of a twelve-week emphasis on the use of Trinitarian language, images, and theological concepts in the weekly worship services and small groups. The triangulated, explanatory, mixed-method design used a series of three multiple-choice and Likert-scale questionnaires and a series of researcher field notes.;The major findings of this study address the cognitive, behavioral, and experiential changes due to the twelve-week intervention. Participants showed positive receptivity to increased cognitive, behavioral, and experiential exposure to Trinitarian theology, even though their past exposure to teachings and experience had been limited. Of the cognitive, behavioral, and experiential elements of this study, I observed participants' greatest change in the cognitive and experiential domains. Participants reported, and field observations confirmed, that participants viewed sermons and participation in the Trinity Life Groups as the intervention elements with the most significant impact on the their cognitive, behavioral, and experiential change regarding the Trinity. |
