What Is the Connection Between Our Mission and What We Believe About Eternity?

We're called to do our work for God, but also with God. What we believe about the future defines what we think matters in the present. If you believe as some Christians do that this world will be utterly destroyed and thrown away then it makes sense that you don't bother fixing this world. And Jesus did not die to rescue people off of a sinking ship. He died and was raised so that he might be given the name above all names"