Is Jesus our Model for living?

Or is he something more... I was looking through some archived sermons the other day from a well-known mega-church pastor and came across a sermon on Philippians chapter 2. The application drawn from the passage was that we need to be humble and subscribe to downward mobility -following the example of Jesus... It occurred to me that while this is a great truth, i wondered if we were reducing Jesus to a mere model. Is he a model for us, or is he something more... It is my understanding that Jesus is our Savior first, and to those who are followers of Him, He then is also a model. I wonder if some have fallen into an error of reversing these priorities.