Advent, the four weeks leading up Christmas, is the time the church has set aside to recognize Jesus’ incarnation as the long-awaited Messiah.  And while we think of Christmas in terms of giving gifts, we rarely think of one of the important implications of the incarnation. Using Paul’s exhortation to the Philippians, we’ll see that we are to imitate Jesus in his incarnation by being self-sacrificing and unselfish – hardly the typical Christmas message, but one that reflects a Christ-centered view of the incarnation.