A popular way of getting at this essence of incarnation is seen in the use of the phrase, “the scandal of particularity,” which suggests that Jesus’ Incarnation sweeps away all of our attempts to generalize God and the spiritual life. In Jesus, we have a clear picture of what it looks like to live in the reality of the kingdom of God come to this earth. It follows that when Jesus told those first disciples He was sending them into the world as the Father had sent Him into the world, His life and