The Body

We (the church) are like this child, Grace. She has an arm missing from the war days in her village, and she tries to do things limited to her. We're just like that. Our church (mostly every church) has many broken pieces in unity. Some people build each other up and some people tear people down because of likings or social statuses. The truth is that we need to drop out all our differences if we want this to work. We need the true unity that binds us together: Jesus Christ. Also, to keep this trip from being a "tourism," we need to leave behind some of the things that entices us to Panama ( dropping everything might cause us to want it, or look for it), so 1) we dont show our social status, 2) we can be with people better. Along with that, just not always being idle in our tasks there, i mean, to rest most of the time will show that you are there to rest only and will not show that you are a servant. We're not just visiting.
"The poor do not need to be integrated into our community, God is calling us, rather, to identify with theirs." - David Chronic.
It is so true. Westeners think that the Christian who is poor is lacking resources. It might be they are lacking resources in today's world's views and mentality, but , in fact, it is mostly the Western Christians who are lacking the resources to know God. Westerns have many things that them from knowing Jesus, to many things in the way that satisfies momentarely. We need to identify with them.