Mission 3:16?

I stopped being a proselytizing Christian somewhere between 'saving' my eighth grade friends from drugs and depression and discovering that there's more to Christianity than Audio Adrenaline's "Mighty Big Leader." But I admit I probably would have thought this was a decent article until relatively recently. It's an OK start; just demonstrates how far the church has to go if we are ever to truly call ourselves transfigured and transformed.
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An excerpt:

Are we settling for less?

Changing the mission mindset of American Christians will be no easy task.
“We have so long perceived ourselves as the bastion of mission-sending, the great North American force going out,” says Bill O’Brien. “And even where we have established partnership, it’s often just a buzzword. In most cases we still have 51 percent of the money and position.”
Mutual partnership between Western and non-Western Christians would turn the traditional short-term mission paradigm on its head. Considering that Christianity is thriving outside the Western world and shrinking in the West, partnership could mean that Western churches begin receiving mission teams, not just sending them.

For instance, Christians from Africa and Asia could teach American Christians how to live faithfully in a pluralistic society without becoming syncretistic.
Believers from countries that persecute Christians could help American Christians learn how to handle increasing intolerance toward believers here.
Followers of Christ from impoverished countries could help American Christians understand the biblical perspective on money and happiness.
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From "Mission Tourism," by Marshall Allen
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How about, Christians from everywhere else could help US of American Christians understand how we continue to screw them over?

There is a fundamental system that the church, as a product of society, is refusing to address: the world is hierarchically ordered, and the industrialized nations are at the top. If Jesus came as the prince of peace for ALL, when will Western Christians understand the death of an African to be as horrible as the death of an American? What does it take for Western Christians to see Christ in those who are marginalized, ignored, forgotten? What does it take for us to stop calling those who are invisible "them," and instead think of them as part of "us"? If we were to truly "do unto the least of these" as we would do unto Christ, I don't think we would come parading our paint buckets and shiny Bibles. If we were to see the face of Christ in the face of every starving parent, I think we would be horrified that our savior can't feed his children while we struggle with obesity. I think the first thing we would ask him would be "how did your situation get to be like this? Why does it continue to be like this? What can I do?"
But when the answer would convict us and implicate a change in lifestyle, it's a whole lot easier to forget to treat people as if they ARE Christ. It's easier to come home happy that the poor people HAVE Christ in their lives. Added bonus when we brought him to them.