Jesus teaching on ‘greatness’ in the Kingdom of God reflects the ‘upside down kingdom’ nature of his teaching. It is not easy to stay in the mindset of servanthood being a mark of true greatness when the secular culture we live in sees greatness in very different ways. That’s perhaps why we’ve taken a word that means servant (minister) and in religious use turned it into a high status word resonant with power and authority. Mark 9:33-41.