Incarnation and Imitation

I recently read this from Josh Leim:

"From the New Testament to St. Macrina to St. Augustine to St Francis to Kierkegaard to Bonhoeffer to Flannery O’Connor to St Oscar Romero, it is the incarnation that has called the church back to its vocation; it is the self-emptying Son of God who is himself the paradigm of the church’s existence in and for the worl…