In the second chapter of Mark, Jesus reaches out to some desperate people: a leper, a paralytic, and a tax collector. These were desperate people, in a desperate culture, with a desperate future, yet Jesus still chose to minister to them. Sometimes being desperate isn't a bad thing. It's the desperate church that's going to reach today's desperate people—and in this season of social distance and spiritual isolation, it's time for the body of Christ to truly be the body of Christ.