For Harink, the church is what is — an elect, exilic community in diaspora – because of the radical action of the whole Trinity. Thus he translates 2 Pet 1:2:
To the elect exiles of the Diaspora . . . according to [kata] the foreknowledge of God the Father, in [en] the sanctification of the Spirit, because of [eis] the obedience and blood-sprinkling of Jesus Christ.
The church has its being then, precisely and only because of the Trinitarian act of foreknowing, sanctifying, and justifying which the Father, Son, and Spirit undertake together.
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