Focused But Not Frantic

One thing NT Wright communicates is how Jesus incarnated was the Kingdom of God. In fact, his ministry was like a living parable. Revivalism and modern Evangelicalism has successfully reduced the "gospel" to something like the Four Spiritual Laws and reduced ministry to a delivery mechanism for the Four Laws. Our faddish -- "Gimmick Driven" -- modus operandi testifies to that. Jesus' appearance took several milennia after the fall and his ministry took 33 quiet years before he stepped on to the public stage. Paul spent over ten unhurried, missing years after his conversion and was brought into the ministry spotlight by someone else, not his own ambitions.

All this is to say -- not that we have "all the time in the world" to lazily bring the Kingdom of God to our world -- but rather that this is God's business. Let God be god -- he has brought everything to pass in his own time. A farmer has to work the field at the proper times to have a crop, but he can't hurry the harvest and it ultimately depends on God to come to fruition.