Kevin DeYoung has posted a most helpful and insightful article regarding an issue I see many Christians, both young and old, wrestling with.
I understand there are lazy people out there (and believe me I can be lazy too sometimes). I understand there are lots of Christians in our churches sitting around doing nothing and they need to be challenged not to waste their life (seriously, I love that book and think Piper motivates for radical Christianity in the right way). I understand that many people in the evangelical world are far from generous with their resources and fritter their time away on inane television shows. But even with these important caveats, we really must be much more careful with out urgent and incessant pleas to “do more” for God. It’s the lazy and/or immature preacher who ends every sermon with a call to do more–more evangelism, more discipleship, more prayer, more giving, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. It’s the Seinfeld approach to application: “More anything? More everything!”
I’ve written just a few things relating to this topic, such as “Do Small Things”, “How To Change the World” and “No Little People”. The point is not to do more things for God. Preach and teach the gospel where you are. We are called to be ambassadors, so be ambassadors. I’m praying that these resources and a grounding in God’s word can allow us to overcome the struggle and lie that we have to become Jesus, that we have to “change the world,” when the reality is that we can do absolutely nothing.
