How is Yeshua honored explicitly in our synagogues?  I asked my students this question recently and several gave me the same example—at their Messianic synagogues, after the singing of Alenu, the cantor, rabbi or congregation recites the mind-blowing words of Philippians 2:5-11:

Let the same mind be in you that was in Messiah Yeshua, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Yeshua every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Yeshua the Messiah is ADONAI, to the glory of God the Father.

I was not surprised that the students answered as they did.  In my travels, I have noticed that amid the diversity of worship expression in the Messianic Jewish movement, declaring Philippians 2:5-11 after the Alenu has become for many Messianic Jews a climactic worship experience—a sacred moment during Shabbat when we lift up the name of Yeshua.  I would like to make two points about this remarkable praise that Paul penned.