Incarnate Quotes

“the beauty and scandal of the gospel is that God in Christ takes on flesh and asks for our help,”
― Michael Frost, Incarnate: The Body of Christ in an Age of Disengagement

“Jesus’s resurrection is the beginning of God’s new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. N. T. WRIGHT”
― Michael Frost, Incarnate: The Body of Christ in an Age of Disengagement

“If you want to know what a person believes, watch what they do. BRENNAN MANNING”
― Michael Frost, Incarnate: The Body of Christ in an Age of Disengagement

“Let us ponder over this basic truth until we are steeped in it, until it becomes as familiar to us as our awareness of shapes or our reading of words: God, at his most vitally active and most incarnate, is not remote from us, wholly apart from the sphere of the tangible; on the contrary, at every moment he awaits us in the activity, the work to be done, which every moment brings. He is, in a sense, at the point of my pen, my pick, my paint-brush, my needle—and my heart and my thought. It is by carrying to its natural completion the stroke, the line, the stitch I am working on that I shall lay hold on that ultimate end towards which my will at its deepest levels tends.1”
― Michael Frost, Incarnate: The Body of Christ in an Age of Disengagement