missional church

Someone shared this video with me last year, and I ran across it again recently.  I agree with the picture of the arrows being turned outward and of the people being the Church in the areas that the video shows: neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces.  The issue I take with this picture, though, is that we have so often set up society so that our neighborhoods, workplaces, and schools are places with people who are a lot like us.  This is not always the case, certainly, but among the vast majority, our churches, schools, neighborhoods, and workplaces are often filled with people much like ourselves.  And even if there is some diversity, we tend to gravitate toward the people there that are most like ourselves.  Therefore, you could live "missional" as defined in this video, and you'd perhaps never grow aware of justice or racial reconciliation as matters of concern.  A person might never be challenged to reorient their lives to be on the side of just living and racial healing.  What might we add to this missional whiteboard that would stretch people to move beyond their familiar circles and help them consider God's call on all of us to be more wholly missional? 

I run into people who are hearing this whiteboard video message of missional, and they'll tell me that because they are being missional in the places God has called them to live, work, and go to school, that there is little of their resources left to direct toward crossing racial, economic, or cultural divides.  With this being the norm, "missional" continues to be largely about sharing Christ with people similar to us and bringing them into our current homogeneous church models.  What if God is calling us to be less separate from people we've largely neglected (or perhaps condemned...or oppressed) in our cities?  To work at breaking down walls that divide us so that we might more fully represent Christian community and the love Christ has for all people?