God is no static monad but a community of persons united in being and love. This God, so filled with love, longs to have others join his community. He made creatures and creation to share in his own community of Father, Son and Spirit.
-Robert E. Webber, Who Gets to Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 29.