Incarnational disciples. This phrase has been rocking me over the past few days.
'Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity...' - the author of Hebrews, referencing Isaiah 8, notes the realness, the humanness, the offensive reality of the incarnation. In Acts, however, we see the reverse happen to the Apostles, the coming of the Spirit into their own flesh.
I've been hit with the idea of myself, my wife, my kids, my group of friends in Christ...all of us being incarnational in nature. This incarnationality is different for us though. We're already meaty.
So it must work in reverse.
To be incarnational disciples we have to let the Spirit of the Living God - the spiritual world of the eternal Kingdom - flow through our imperfect lives and dwell within and among us. We must be infused with God the Spirit to partake in and bring reconciliation.
Jesus brought salvation through abandoning His throne temporarily and uniting Himself with mans flesh. We must be ambassadors of reconciliation by abandoning our flesh (so to speak) and uniting it with the spiritual. A reverse incarnation.
An 'uncarnation.'
Hebrews 2
The book Competent Christian Counselors struck me with the idea of 'incarnational counseling'
