"Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus ..." (v. 5). What a strange Messiah
he was. Paul would not let the church forget that Jesus was, more than anything else, a
servant. He emptied himself for the sake of the world. He took the form of a slave. God's
only Son humbled himself by obeying even when it meant a cross.
Legend says that the stole the minister wears around his or her neck was once draped
over the arm, symbolic of a towel where the minister was ready and willing to wash
whosever feet came his way. Through the years, the stole has become an object of
