I'm reading a book called The Monkey and the Fish. It's about leadership for a , wait for it, third culture church.

What is a third culture church, you ask? It's the mindset and the will to love, learn, and serve in any culture, even in the midst of pain and discomfort.

Personally, I think that a lot of the church today has made a sort of three part caste system. In the top layer of the caste system stands church-goers, the righteous. In the second layer stands the Christmas and Easter crowd. In the third layer stands the untouchables. Those that no one wants to talk to, those who your eyes try to avoid on the street. The dirty. The broken. The homeless. The prostitutes. The drug-addicts.




The question for the third culture, for what we need to strive for, is how do we integrate and transform the hearts of all three of these groups? How do we all become the BODY of Christ instead of the LIMBS of Christ?

It all goes back to the mindset. And, the action to go with the mindset. We need to have the will and obedience to love, learn, and serve in any culture, even in the midst of pain and discomfort.