Any leader who is unwilling to transfer power to others has a failed view of the incarnation. Jesus Christ, who is fully God, voluntarily curtailed dimensions of his deity behind the veil of his humanity so that he might walk with and die for us. Paul gets to the heart of this in what theologians call the great “kenosis passage” of Philippians 2. In a breathtaking show of humility, Jesus Christ “humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!” (Philippians 2:8).
