Paul's style of Missions

Graciously, urgently, strategically, and with confidence. I’m not sure which of these specifically are least evident in the church—maybe a mixture of the first two, leaning more towards urgently. We seem to, as much as we can, understand the fact that God is gracious and wants everyone to be saved and allowing everyone to accept his gift. We also seem to understand, to an extent, that Christ is returning sometime and we need to work diligently—but we don’t necessarily live that out. I love the analogy that is given of the grace injected into the atmosphere, but one day it will be taken out. When that happens those who have inhaled the grace will be saved, but those who haven’t will have lost their chance. If that was taken more seriously I would hope we would have a fire lit under us to cause us to move and do work. The problem with urgency is that we aren’t serious about sharing the gospel and making disciples and we don’t live as if Christ is coming back. Honestly, I’m not sure what could be done to address this issue—maybe if the people preaching about this believed it themselves, had urgency paired with passion about the matter, then others would be more interested. Nevertheless, if it was addressed more would we really listen? The issue isn’t solely the fact that it isn’t addressed, it is also a heart matter. We can speak about something like this all day long but until a heart is changed there won’t be any real movements made.