So often, Jesus speaks about himself, not by pointing to himself, but by drawing attention to his relationship with the Father.  We see him constantly relating to his Father in the Spirit. In this way, he opens the life of God to us as communal. He shows that God is not an individual.  Nor is he a cluster of three individual persons. He is a communion of three persons mutually indwelling one another as One.  The three persons are different but do not live and move as separate individuals. 

But what is a person? We think we know what a person is because we are persons. So the three persons in the One Being are persons just like us. But isn’t that the wrong way around?  Shouldn’t we rather begin with God as he has made himself known through the unique person, Jesus?  In him, we see what a person is.  Jesus is who he is as Son in relation to his Father. The Father is who he is as Father in relation to his Son.  We also are persons in relation to other persons.

In union with Jesus, we share in his communion with the Father by the Spirit.  And within this communion, we learn what it is to be a person.  Indeed, within this communion, we become persons in the way the relational God intends us to be. T. F. Torrance refers to Jesus as the personalising person who personalises us by the personal Spirit.  He does so, as we share his communion with the Father in the Spirit.  In union with him, we become more and more persons in relation to God, one another and all creation.