“Incarnation” | Pastor Jack Carter

C.S. Lewis wrote: “The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became man… If the thing happened, it was the central event in the history of the Earth — the very thing that the whole story has been about.”

Andrew W Jones writes: “The Incarnation is the center of all history. Everything that happened before the Incarnation was leading up to it, and everything that has happened since can only be understood through it. The Incarnation is what history is about.”

John the Apostle wrote: “The Word (Jesus) was made flesh (fully human). He lived among us and we saw His glory, the glory that is His as the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.” Thus the cosmic consequences of the birth of this baby in Bethlehem are vast beyond measure. Jesus is the way, truth, and life; this reality is not simply one option among many or merely the Christian’s “religious” perspective. All things were made through Him, born of Mary. He is the light and the life of men. So when, in time, in history, the Logos became flesh, it was much more than the arrival, advent, of a religious teacher or spiritual guide. He came as King, the true imperator of all the world. Let all the earth be glad!