Greatness is not where you sit. Greatness is not who you sit with.
Greatness is service.
Jesus modeled submission. Service is an expression of love, which Jesus modeled when he came to earth, Lyons continued. Service is not an occasional activity Christians do when it is convenient, he said, but a life lived with a complete devotion for what God has called them to do. Sometimes this means moving out from what is comfortable and going to what is uncomfortable and difficult as Lyons did 25 years ago when he moved into the inner city of Chicago where God had called him to minister. There was not an ascension after dinner every night.