We choose to practice humility and servanthood by actually being with those who tend to be marginalized by the wider culture—the unattractive, the socially nonstrategic, the elderly, the mentally or physically handicapped, the prisoner, the battered, the poor. We join Jesus in being impressed by, and in awe of, people the world considers unimpressive. Like the apostle Paul, we are to internalize how the cross of Christ has put to death the old world of distinctions, divisions, and hierarchies. As a result, we “regard no one from a worldly point of view” (2 Corinthians 5:16).
