Our Beginnings
At Incarnation, we are learning to live our part in the true story of the whole world. This story begins in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, when God creates the heavens and the earth.
This story runs through the whole Bible. Following Adam's sin and Noah's flood, God calls and blesses Abram, the man who will become the great patriarch Abraham. Abraham learned and lived his part in God's salvation story the same way we can learn to live ours: through faith in the living God (Gen. 15:6).
God promised to make Abram a great nation, to give Abram a great name, and to bless the world through Abram (Gen. 12:1-3). God makes Abram a great nation through the prophet and leader Moses (Ex. 19:1-6). God gives Abram a great name through the King and prophet David (2 Sam 7:8-17). God sends out his blessings to all the world through Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, the Son of the Living God (Mt. 28:18-20).
Following his crucifixion and resurrection, Jesus founds his church—his community of disciples on mission. And this community then fills the inhabited world. From the ancient and medieval ages, throughout the reformation and modern periods, God the Father stays faithful to his purposes and his people through Jesus Christ.
Through Jesus—by personal faith in him—our stories become part of his story. Our lives become filled with his life (Eph. 2:8-10).
Our Name
The Incarnation is not just our name. The Incarnation is the story in which and the strategy by which we are planting this church. We are a community of disciples to Jesus rooted and resident in Bryan/College Station, on mission with college students at Texas A&M and surrounding colleges.
Incarnation is a people who “moves into the neighborhood," with God. In response to Jesus, we are following him in his ongoing mission in practical, tangible, and accessible ways.
We summarize this identity in our simple self-description. Church of the Incarnation: a community of Anglican Christians sharing a vision of Jesus, following Him as Lord, Loving him and all he loves.
This is a summary of our identity as disciples, our practice as Anglicans, our focus on mission, and our goal of love.
Our connections
Church of the Incarnation, Bryan/College Station, is a parish of the Diocese of Ft. Worth, a founding diocese of the Anglican Church in North America in communion and on mission with with global Anglicans in the GAFCON movement.
Our Focus
Our focus is on mission, God's mission to us and our mission with him.
In his magisterial work, The Mission of God, Christopher J.H. Wright defines mission as, "our committed participation as God's people, at God's invitation and command, in God's own mission within the history of God's world for the redemption of God's creation."
For us this means we focus on what God has done and is doing through Jesus. God is working out his plan "to unite all things in him [Jesus], things in heaven and things on earth" (Eph. 1:10).
Our Goal
We exist to be used by God to save the lost and grow the saved into the fulness of humanity in Christ (Eph. 4:15-16). We believe we are called to become fully human, by grace through faith, enjoying who Jesus is and learning to practice what he teaches about true humanity in real life: loving God and loving our neighbors as ourselves.
Our Prayer
O God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity of human nature: Grant that we may share the divine life of him who humbled himself to share our humanity, your Son Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.