In Greco-Roman society humility wasn't a virtue. It was considered shameful. Greeks and Romans thought nothing of praising themselves in public or, better still, getting others to praise them. Caesar Augustus was known for his self-aggrandizement. And then a seismic shift occurred in the First Century when the followers of Jesus, forced to come to grips with his humiliating death on a cross, realized that humility is actually holy, sacred. Humility, then, became a mark of the Christian life, a cruciform life. And there's probably no better example of this shift in meaning than Paul's vision for the church in Philippi.

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