Core Issues

As the time for us to go to Japan quickly approaches, I keep thinking of all the things we need to do, to learn, to avoid, and my head is swimming in a sea of random thoughts, lists of to-dos, and principles. So I keep trying to simplify what is the most important thing? Is it getting down the language, or our memorizing our body worship so we don't mess up? Maintaining consistent QT's etc. So after repeatedly trying to narrow down the list I got it down to one thing to do and 2 questions to ask. The one thing to do is to be close to Jesus and sit at his feet. I have to resist the temptation to do more like Martha and simply sit at Jesus feet. In spending time with Jesus, people will be drawn to Christ emmanating from me. But as we learned in Perspectives, good intentions are not enough. Missionaries with the best of intentions have turned people away from the Gospel by inadvertantly offending people. Why didn't Jesus just come down as a man? He had to become one of us to relate to us in a way we could understand. Like Paul says in 1 Cor 9:22 he became "all things to all men so that by all possible means" he "might save some". So the 2 questions I need as a barometer to judge how I should use my time (which is quickly becoming scarce) is "will this draw people to Christ?" and "will failure to this push people away from Christ?" So will people exclaim "what must i do to be saved?" because I am so Beyonce-esque in my body worship? haahaha, obviously not. But if I can't be compassionate with my patients who I see 50 weeks a year as opposed to the people in Japan I see for just 2 weeks a year, will my witness be hurt? I think so. So God help me focus in on the core issues, and not be distracted by the logistics.