Sunday, December 23, 2018. The Gifts We Bring (Part 3). Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. Christians have always tended to keep the humanity of Jesus at arm’s length. We treat his human nature as a problem around which we have to tiptoe, even as we make full-throated affirmations of his divinity. But the incarnation - God taking on human flesh - is only meaningful if God experiences life as one of us.