This week, Dennis Allan walks through Philippians 2:5-11. Paul exhorts the Philippine church to have the same mindset of Jesus, a mindset that’s marked by an intentional downward descent. Jesus, even though he was co-equal with God, did not consider his status or privilege something to be grasped onto and used for his own advantage. Instead, he humbled and emptied himself, taking on the form of a servant and dying on a cross. Jesus, even though he’s the world’s true king, travels down a path of shame, living and dying in the most humiliating of ways, at least based on Roman social values. Yet, God’s response was to exalt him, to make his name the name at which every knee should bow. Because it is intrinsic to God’s character to exalt those who humble themselves. Paul is teaching the church in Philippi how to build a shared, public life in a Roman city that’s worthy of the gospel. It’s also how we’re meant to conform and pattern our lives today.