Holy Urgency Ain't At All About.. Cloning Any Believing Soul
Nope. God never saves a person to erase them or their personality. He saves them to redeem them and use them in various ways that correspond with how He designed each of them.
You have a special calling and purpose in God's Kingdom. If you never get right with God through Christ, you will never discover these. Such a forfeiture of JOY would be beyond tragic!
Grace with truth in Christ does not flatten your personality; it'll resurrect it. Jesus does that--He is the truth. The gospel does not turn people into religious replicas or anyone, or some awkward spiritual robots.
Cloneliness is NOT next to godliness. When Christ takes full hold of a life, He does not mass-produce any copies—He crafts bespoke unique witnesses so to speak. We evaluate, but a witness is not some judge or prosecuting atourney so to speak. We tall what we know for sure happened -- what we've seen and first-hand experienced. It's so people will come to know and follow Christ.
I repeat.. If you are winsome in Christ, you will win some.. over to Christ.
That is not some clever wordplay; it is biblical wisdom lived out across the centuries by people better than me at this.
Billy Graham once said, “God does not call us to be successful, but faithful.” And yet, throughout Scripture and church history, fruitfulness with faithfulness has repeatedly produced more fruit—souls saved and growing spiritually in God's word, churches were planted, cultures were well influenced—not because believers lost their individuality, but because God sanctified and blessed it.
God Uses Real People To Really Impact Others, Not Some Religious Carbon Copies
Ask God for seed-planting wisdom today, and for a harvest of souls.
One of the quiet fears people carry about Christianity is this: “Will I lose myself?”
The gospel answers clearly: No—you will finally become who you were meant to be.
Peter preached with fire. John wrote with tenderness. Paul reasoned like a scholar and pleaded like a father. Lydia opened her home. Andrew quietly brought one soul at a time. Mary poured out worship. Martha served with energy. None of them sounded alike—yet all burned with the same holy urgency.
“There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit… the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all.” (1 Corinthians 12:4–7)
God works through personalities, cultures, cities, callings, and contexts. The gospel has always traveled on human voices—Hebrew prophets, Galilean fishermen, African church fathers, European reformers, frontier preachers, inner-city missionaries, suburban moms, factory workers, and faithful grandparents.
In the Bible how is God described? He is a "consuming fire." Sure He is. See Hebrews 12:29, which says just that, "For our God is a consuming fire."
Uniformity has never been the mark of real revival fire (it's a given that there have been many jacked-up, off-base revivals).
I don't come first, He and His will for me does.
Let's study about appropriating.. red hot and holy passion for Christ. I'm talkin' about real love for Him. It needs to come before all other loves in our lives.
Man, I've been burned before by people. What exactly does it mean that God is a consuming fire?
Huh? What exactly is the zeal of the Lord, and what assurance does it give us (Isaiah 9:7)?
(Was there a sense of urgency with it? See the movie Jesus Revolution - it's pretty good. and I was privileged to experience this firsthand in So Cal). I think you will enjoy it.
What does it mean to always be ready to give an answer (1 Peter 3:15)? That's my favorite workplace verse.
"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this." Isaiah 9:6-7
The times change, the methods change accordingly, but the (Bible) Message never does. Biblical urgency begins not with methods, but with God's Message about Jesus and holy affection for Him.
The greatest evangelists in Scripture were first lovers of Christ. They spoke because they could not stay silent.
“We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” (Acts 4:20)
Urgency is not panic. It is clarity. It is knowing what matters most and refusing to treat eternity casually.
Leonard Ravenhill encouraged us to pray with a sense of urgency: “The church has many organizers, but few agonizers.”
Yet those in history who agonized—prayed, wept, pleaded—shook cities.
Cloneliness is NOT next to godliness when it comes to evangelistic urgency in a local church. There's been such a wide array of expressions with so many decent (spiritually healthy Bible teaching) churches and Christian para-church ministries!
The Apostle Paul sure did contrast the letter and the Spirit, yup, he was observing that the letter kills but the Spirit gives life (2 Corinthians 3:6b). When referring to the letter, Paul was talking about the Mosaic Law, which did not bring life but rather was a ministry to expose death (2 Corinthians 3:7). Paul notes that, if the messenger of that ministry (Moses) had glory or a face that shone (2 Corinthians 3:7), how much more the ministry of the Spirit would be associated with glory (2 Corinthians 3:8). Paul compares the glory of the two ministries (death and life, and the two covenants for Israel) and asserts that the ministry of the Spirit comes with greater and lasting glory, while the glory associated with the Law of Moses faded away.
When Jesus becomes your supreme relationship while here on this planet, then evangelism becomes the overflow from this relationship, not some religious or any obligation at all.
Urgency With Courtesy, Boldness With Beauty - It Can Happen With You
Biblical urgency is never rude, manipulative, or reckless. It is respectful, patient, and courageous.
“Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside… let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt.” (Colossians 4:5–6)
The New Testament pattern is clear: truth spoken plainly, love shown genuinely, and time treated seriously.
Charles Spurgeon captured this (urgency with respectful tact) tension well:
“If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our dead bodies.”
Not with arrogance—but with a compassion that compels us.
Evangelistic urgency says: People matter. Time matters. Truth matters.
History Confirms What Scripture Teaches
From the early church to modern missions, whenever believers burned hot with devotion and bold with love, the kingdom expanded.
Church history tells the same story Scripture does:
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When prayer deepened, the Word spread.
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When holiness increased, witness multiplied.
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When Christ was treasured, souls were rescued.
Barna research has repeatedly shown that while many Christians affirm the importance of evangelism, far fewer live with urgency or intentionality—often not from rebellion, but from distraction and fear. Yet the same studies show that people are most open to faith conversations when approached relationally, respectfully, and authentically.
In other words: winsome Christians still win people.
Even hymns remind us of this fire:
“Rescue the perishing, care for the dying,
Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave.”
That lyric did not come from theory—it came from urgency.
The Fruit Is Real!
Jesus alone adds to His Church, When we stay connected, we grow and produce fruit. He is the vine and we are the branches!
I can't add people in, I can't produce fruit on my own. When Christ is loved deeply and proclaimed faithfully, spiritual fruit follows. Lives change. Churches grow—not just numerically, but spiritually. Saints are formed. Disciples are made. The kingdom advances quietly, steadily, and powerfully.
“The Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.” (Acts 2:47)
God has never needed louder personalities that he has—only surrendered, willing, humble, and obedient people.
God will not clone any Christian. He doesn't even want you to be another person other than yourself as a new creation in Him. He won't turn you into someone else.
He will make you more you than sin ever allowed you to be.
He will ignite your heart, sharpen your calling, and place you exactly where you can most shine (reflect His light)—in your city, in your culture, in your circle of influence—with holy urgency and genuine human warmth.
Love Christ fiercely without spiritual compromise. Live faithfully. Speak truth graciously.
And trust God to do what He has always done—
use ordinary people like you and me for His glory, with uncommon fire, to rescue the lost. Real not yet regenerated people.. in need.
Isolation has never produced a copycat-twin of holiness when the gospel is at stake. You and I don't want that isolation or to be a copycat.
You and I do need quite times alone with Jesus daily, but God has never advanced His saving purposes through inordinate detached solitude.
It's been through burning hearts sent into living streets, homes, synagogues, nations, fields, and marketplaces. Evangelistic urgency has never worn a single uniform—it has spoken in many accents, walked differently (not unblically) in many cultures, and shone through countless personalities across the ages.
Take courage, buckeroo—rest your fears forever. God does not erase any unique human soul to represent Himself out in the world. He does not forge saints into mechanical replicas or hollow messengers. The Lord who formed Jeremiah in the womb, refined David with a harp, reasoned with Paul’s mind, and wept through Jesus’ eyes delights in redeeming persons, not producing automatons.
The gospel does not sterilize personality; it sanctifies it. God’s Spirit does not flatten distinctiveness—He fills it with holy fire. From whispered conversations to public cries, from quiet faithfulness to bold proclamation, the same living Christ has always worked through beautifully unique vessels.
Be assured: the God who sends you will never make you strange in spirit, only alive in truth—and urgently loving toward the lost.
