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These ought the be self-evident, but let’s just state which self-evidentiatilities apply here

Again, this is just a draft, awful grammar etc. You can consider it to be something written around 1 am and try to get enough of the general idea to give some feedback.

God is one. Father and Son and Holy Spirit are of the same being, they are not separate. The difference is more in how we perceive God in different settings than in God Himself, who is one integral immutable being.

Father is almighty and beyond time and space. He has created everything. He has revealed Himself in His Son Jesus Christ and in His Word, the Old and New testament of the Holy Bible. The Bible is the only reliable revelation about Him and salvation and all other revelation must be measured against it.

Jesus Christ is God incarnate, true God and true man, of one being with God. Jesus is the only begotten Son of God. He died on the cross for our sins, resurrected, ascended into heaven and will come to judge all men rightfully according to their works. Our sins are forgiven to us on the grounds of Jesus’ work on the Cross, by the faith God has given to us. There is no other way to God but Jesus, no salvation other than in His work on the cross.

Holy Spirit is of the same being as God. Spirit works in the everywhere in the world, lives in Christians and unites Christians into the death and resurrection of Christ. For a more accurate attempt to describe the trinity, refer to the Athanasian Creed.

Christian is a person, whom Holy Spirit has joined to the death and resurrection of Christ. He has been called to the childhood of God and to be a co-heir together with Christ and to live the life, where Jesus lives and actualizes Himself in him.

If anyone is in Christ, he is both saved and justified. This implies that we are to live accordingly, our lives are to reflect the will of God, His love and holiness. Holy Spirit causes this to happen, by calling us to change and effecting the change in us. This process of Him causing this change in our lives is called sanctification or spiritual growth.

Spiritual growth is a process, whose active agent is Holy Spirit and object the Christian, in whom Spirit effects the growth. In this process Christ will gain more room in the Christians life, heart and mind, effecting him to express more and more characters of Christ.

Holy Spirit wants us to mature in our faith. Spirit wants to sanctify us in order for us to get to see the Lord. For this we need to accept discipline from Spirit. Spiritual growth is continual surrendering to repenting in those things Spirit points one to repent, and obedience in every issue Spirit brings up. This continual surrendering and obedience extends the Kingdom of God in the individual.

Kingdom of God is the domain of His reign. When a Christian consents to spiritual growth, the kingdom extends in him. Collectively the Kingdom of God is all those people, who recognise Jesus’ kingship, to the extent they recognise it, have surrendered to it. This aggregate is also known as the body of Christ. This collective body consists of several smaller communities.

When Holy Spirit builds a community in the kingdom, it means both growth of the individual members and growth of their mutual unity. Holy Spirit has also provisioned the Kingdom with various gifts given to the subjects of the King. A result of the growth of the kingdom is understanding the purpose of these gifts and serving one another with them, using them to advance the goals of the kingdom.

God has called and given some of His subjects into some of the five offices of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor or teacher. The joint commission of these people is to prepare God’s people for works of service and build the body of Christ. While some of these people might not have official positions in the communities of the kingdom, it is will of God that they would recognise these offices.

One important directions, where Spirit grows these communities is out. Spirit wants to increase both the number of these communities and the number of Jesus’ subjects.

Only Holy Spirit Himself can cause the growth of the kingdom. What we can and are called to do, is let the Spirit use as as hands on the earth, so that he might grow the Kingdom in us, through us, and with us, making us catalysts of the change in us and in our environments.

When people change, it has an effect to our surroundings, as we are part of our environments. This change is primarily spiritual, but as our practical acts arise from our hearts, it will manifest in our deeds. Some trivial examples of these practical implications are mutual love and evangelistic work. More generally we could say that God wants to effectuate is us a priority God, family, service.