Advent 4, Year B
A Sermon Preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark Advent 4, Year B The Very Reverend Tyler B. Doherty, Dean & Rector Why did God choose to become incarnate in the person of Jesus? What’s the purpose of the incarnation? With all the pageantry surrounding the Christmas season, it’s easy for the essentials of the Christian story to fade behind a flurry of gift buying and tree decoration. Remember those lines from 2 Peter , “ by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, that through these you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of passion, and become partakers of the divine nature” (1:4). The mission of Jesus is to open a way for human beings, all human beings (gay, straight, black, white, male, female, rich or poor), to share in the life of God. We’re startled when we hear a Father of the Church like Athanasius say something like, “God became human so that human beings might become God.” It sounds a little heretical to our modern e