Jonathan Dodson has shared an excellent series of blog posts at The Resurgence about how not to be a missional church. He provides three ways:That’s a quote from atheist Penn Jillette, of the magician duo, Penn & Teller. Video, followed by transcript, below:
If your "want to" does not conform to God's "ought to," what can you do to have peace?
John Piper lays out five possible strategies:
1. You can avoid thinking about the "ought to." This is the most common strategy in the world. Most people simply do not devote energy to pondering what they should be doing that they are not doing.
2. You can reinterpret the "ought to" so that it sounds just like your "want to." This is a little more sophisticated and so not as common. It often takes a college education to do this with credibility, and a seminary degree to do it with finesse.
3. You can muster the willpower to do a form of the "ought to" even though you don't have the heart of the "want to." This generally looks pretty good, and is often mistaken as virtue, even by those who do it. In fact, there is a whole worldview that says doing "ought to's" without "want to" is the essence of virtue. The problem with this is that Paul said, "God loves a cheerful giver," which puts the merely "ought-to givers" in a precarious position.
4. You can muster the willpower to do a form of the "ought to" and feel remorse for not having the heart of the "want to." This is not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy hides one of the two contradictory impulses.
5. You can seek, by grace, to have God give the "want to" so that when the time comes to do the "ought to," you will "want to." Ultimately, the "want to" is a gift of God.
"The mind of the flesh is hostile to God…it is not able to submit to the law of God." (Romans 8:7)
"The natural man cannot understand the things of the Spirit of God…because they are spiritually appraised." (1 Corinthians 2:14)
"Perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth." (2 Timothy 2:25) The Biblical doctrine of original sin boils down to this (to borrow from St. Augustine): We are free to do what we like, but we are not free to like what we ought to like.
God's free and sovereign heart-changing work is our only hope. Therefore we must pray for a new heart. We must pray for the "want to": Incline my heart to Your testimonies. (Psalm 119:36). He has promised to do it: I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes. (Ezekiel 36:27). This is the new covenant bought by the blood of Jesus (Hebrews 8:8-13; 9:15).
HT: Desiring God
Paul informs us in Romans 1:19-23 man's problem is that he has suppressed the truth about God that has been revealed in the creation around him. This suppression has led to darkened hearts and imaginations that are empty of spiritual reality. Man tries to fill in the blanks with whatever might be in vogue at the moment -- in biblical times it was idols and the direct conscious worship of creation. Today it might be New Age philosophy, Eastern religions, human achievement, humanistic theory, modernistic certainty, postmodern uncertainty, or any number of other theories. Bottom line: mankind has rejected God and His truth and suffers the consequences of that choice as God hands him over to enslavement by his own worldview with its resulting sins (1:24-32). It is no wonder people are disillusioned with life; sin and false beliefs ultimately have that affect.To this end this book is dedicated. We want to understand the opposition to having and living a biblical worldview, what steps we must take to implement the same in our churches, and then how to evangelize people from a biblical worldview framework.
When most of us think of those serving in the military, especially during times of war, we think of the force that our military, at times, is called to use. It is important to recognize the sacrifices our soldiers make and the realities they endure within the war torn regions of the world, but the image of the fighting soldier does not, thankfully, represent the typical, everyday reality for most of our military personnel. All have or will answer the call of war, and I am thankful that they answer that call, but our military does so much more than fight. They also help us, as a nation, love our international neighbors by doing all that is demanded of us as a member of the global community (Deuteronomy 10:12-13, 17-21): They help feed and clothe those in need, protect the weak, and treat the sick and dying. So to those who have served and to those who are currently serving, including their families, thank you, for all that you do and have done to protect freedom at home and throughout the world. Happy Veterans Day! 
