A Chosen Incarnation!

There are many people moving into meaningful kingdom ministry by getting outside the fellowship and walls of the church. It's costing them, in terms of the institution of church, but what they are gaining is far too precious for them to give up such a movement. It's become more about a world of unbelievers all around them, than about themselves, or managing the institution.
They have gotten to the heart of what they have been looking for after years and years of service within the traditional track. Let's give permission for people to seriously move outside the walls, into darkness. They still know they still need fellowship with the "Church" around Acts 2:42. However, they do not need to "show up" at all the activities of "Your Church", free them to be an extension of the kingdom to that new little corner.

"Such people are all humble; they don’t rely on past experience or present ministry posts to define them. They grapple honestly with their financial stability and at times make incredible readjustments in order to spend time with the unchurched. Sometimes they get fired; often they are are misunderstood by those they leave in order to go with God into the world. These types of people are the ones who decide not to go to the next religious leadership conference so that they can stay home and go fishing with a friend who doesn’t know Christ. They leave the church office so they can do their work at Starbucks in order to meet someone new. They intentionally look out their window and see a neighbor and decide to act like they’re going to get their mail, just so they might strike up a conversation. These are the ones who embrace the fear, breathe, and then walk back into tension.
(Tangible Kingdom. Hugh Halter, pg 33, 2008, Jossey-Bass)

There is something about the above quote that makes me smile.