Christ perfectly modeled the servant lifestyle. This servant mandate is also supported throughout the scriptures:

• Matthew 20:28 "Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
  
  
• Philippians 2:4-7 "Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant."
  
  
• Galatians 5:13 "...Serve one another in love."
  
  
• II Timothy 1:3 "I thank God, whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers."
  
  
• Joshua 24:15 "But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."
  
  
• I Peter 4:10-11 "Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Christ Jesus."