What Would It Look Like?

Continuing on similar lines of my last post, I want to pose another question, What does it mean to live as Christ? The Bible gives a fairly detailed description of the daily life of Jesus and his disciples. and it gives us direct commands to "take up our cross and follow". But what does that look like in today's world? What does it look like to leave everything behind to follow a Christ that you can't see? What do we do with passages like,
"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; ³⁸and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Matt 10:38-39
And
"I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." Luke 18:14
Christ has a measuring system so beyond our culture's thinking that we can't begin to visualize it. What would this world think of a group of people who followed a completely different system for measuring success? A group of people who rejoiced when they failed or when their church didn't grow in numbers or their ministry didn't expand.
But there's a flip side.
"To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law.To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God's law but am under Christ's law), so as to win those not having the law. To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some." 1 Cor 9:20-22
How separate can we be while being the same?