[The institutional church] starts out to get people saved and equip them for service. It proceeds by serving people who have come inside a building. Then it settles for elevating the programs and obligations of the gathered congregation until, finally, the costs exceed the benefits to those who attend. Meanwhile, the church virtually forgets about the world outside. If the church exists to include those not yet included in heaven, and those not yet included are to know we are Christians by our love, we need to be based in geographical proximity to them. That's why the church distributed plan is field-based, not headquarters-based.

Joel Hunter. CHURCH DISTRIBUTED: HOW THE CHURCH CAN THRIVE IN THE COMING ERA OF CONNECTION.