Flesh: Bringing the Incarnation Down to Earth

Don’t overspiritualize your “ministry” job, and don’t underspiritualize your mundane job. Give God room to bring the sacred out of the secular, and He will.

Nothing was written to an individual about his or her own life apart from the mission. You can, of course, have “community based” on anything, so when we use the words incarnational community, we are referring to a unique band of friends who live intentionally to become more like Jesus together. They share a common story and a common struggle, they

rhythms that propel them out into the culture as kingdom representatives. They grow deep because they live their deep story together. You’ll notice that Jesus never walked alone. Heck, He was God incarnate, but He moved in the context of incarnational community. As the Father sent Him into the neighborhoods, Jesus took His friends with Him so they

Here’s the deal. People are not looking for doctrine. They’re looking for a God with skin on, a God they can know, speak with, learn from, struggle with, be honest with, get straight answers from, and connect their lives to.

Our flesh is the most vulnerable part of our bodies and oftentimes the reason we get judged, abused, enslaved, or stereotyped. Flesh matters!

For instance, many Christians base their personal sanctification scorecard on whether they had a devotional time that day, avoided swearing, and went to church. But while they may feel great about their “walk with God,” they have not loved their neighbors as much as they love themselves, they haven’t cared for or even looked to take care of the nee

Incarnation is going to ask you to have full faith in God’s ability to transcend what you presently see in someone’s life.

Therefore, to have skin is to be human, and that’s why flesh becomes the single most important theological, cosmological, and practical essence of our faith. Here’s why. God as Spirit intentionally put on skin for us. This is called the incarnation—a word that means “to take on flesh.”

If He remains a historical figure who came to pay for our sins, then we may put a cross around our neck, we may go to church on occasion to thank Him for what He did for us, but we may not look much different from the guy or gal next door. But if you become convinced that Jesus had other reasons for coming to earth—namely to teach humans how to be