The "3 P's of Religion" aren't a single, universal concept but vary by context, commonly referring to spiritual practices like Prayer, Patience, and Perseverance (or Presence/Pondering) for personal faith, or specific tenets like the Abrahamic Covenant's Promised Land, Priesthood, and Posterity (as taught in Mormonism), or even Pope Francis's emphasis on Prayer, Poverty, and Patience for consecrated life, all focusing on deepening one's relationship with the divine and living a purposeful life.
Three “P's” to remember when seeking to discern God's will and leading in your life: pause (take time), ponder (think thoroughly), and pray (ask God).
As I wait for my second grandchild's arrival in our world, I'm learning to pray for the 3Ps – patience, protection and perseverance. These are good things to pray for regardless of our circumstances or individual petitions!
The doctrine of the Trinity means that there is one God who eternally exists as three distinct Persons — the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Stated differently, God is one in essence and three in person.
In the same manner, we find Jesus articulating the three pillars of His faith. In Matthew 6:1–18, Jesus outlines three spiritual disciplines: righteousness (almsgiving), prayer, and fasting (repentance).
Religions have four core components, which are belief (ideas and values), mythology (supernatural and sacred stories), practices (rituals and rites of passage), and social organization (community).
Most classification schemes list Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodox Christianity, with Orthodox Christianity being divided into Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and the Church of the East.
As Barna points out, most Christian denominations—including “almost all Protestant, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox communities of faith”—uphold the trinity as a “mainstream doctrinal foundation,” while groups like Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, and Scientology reject it.
The term "The Holy Trinity" calls to mind the Christian faith, which refers to God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit as the "Holy Trinity." Prudhomme referred to the three vegetables this way because they serve as the foundation of classic Cajun dishes from etouffee to gumbo to fricassee.
For the believer, our justification was, our sanctification is, and our glorification is to come. We were saved, we are being saved, we will be saved. I've found the easiest way to understand these three forms of freedom is to remember the three P's: penalty, power, and presence.
While there is so much more God's Word tells us about prayer, these three thoughts will help us understand how to make our prayers more effective. God desires only the best for us and is always working on our behalf. The answer will come in His perfect timing. Ask, align, and ask again!
The five P's in the Lord's Prayer are as follows: (1) praise, hallowing His name; (2) proclamation, His kingdom come and will be done; (3) petition, give us this day our bread; (4) promise, forgive us and help us to forgive; and (5) power, His is the kingdom and power and glory forever.
His plan, protection, provision, peace, power, and prize. God's presence includes all these things. But the beauty of God's presence is not just that we have these six P's to cling to. The beauty is also that God does know the way home.
Other times it is merely an innocent surprise reaction which, while morally problematic to thoughtlessly use the name of God, does not arise to a level of serious sin. Use of “oh my gosh” or “goodness” does not reference God and therefore would not be considered to be sinful.
The "3 C's of Christianity" refer to different core concepts, most commonly Christ, the Cross, and the Church, representing the central figure, the means of salvation, and the community spreading the faith. Other interpretations focus on discipleship as Conviction, Character, and Competence (or skill) in ministry, or the path to faith as Conviction, Confession, and Conversion (doing), emphasizing belief, declaration, and action.
In Christianity, you pray to God (the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), but the common pattern is to pray to the Father through Jesus (the Son) in the power of the Holy Spirit, as Jesus is the mediator, yet you can also speak directly to Jesus or the Spirit as distinct persons of the Trinity, as they are one God. Jesus taught to pray to the Father (e.g., The Lord's Prayer), but the Bible also shows people praying directly to Jesus (e.g., Stephen, Paul), and praying to any person of the Trinity is praying to God.
Matthew 21:22 means that genuine, unwavering faith is essential for answered prayer, but it's understood within the larger context of aligning your requests with God's will, not as a blank check for selfish desires; it's about trusting God's power and goodness, even when outcomes differ from expectations, often linked to the previous verse about the withered fig tree as a lesson in divine judgment and the power of belief.
Unitarians maintain that Jesus was a great man and a prophet of God—perhaps even a supernatural being—but not God himself. They believe Jesus did not claim to be God and that his teachings did not suggest the existence of a triune God.
They believe that Jehovah is the only true god, the creator of all things, and the "Universal Sovereign". They believe that all worship should be directed toward him, and that he is not part of a Trinity; consequently, the group places more emphasis on God than on Christ.
Yet, Church teachings about the Godhead differ from those of traditional Christianity. For example, while some believe the three members of the Trinity are of one substance, Latter-day Saints believe they are three physically separate beings, but fully one in love, purpose and will.
Eastern Orthodox
Eastern Orthodoxy is one of the main Chalcedonian Christian branches, alongside Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. Each Eastern Orthodox church considers itself part of the one true church, and pre-denominational.