Missional review of procrastination for therapeutic handling of the depressed God’s stewards

Abstract

This article reviews procrastination from a missional perspective. It is done to connect a dot and/or solve a puzzle in God’s stewards’ personal or corporate life. Procrastination is a widespread global phenomenon which affects them, despite their God-given skills, tools and authority to do their tasks voluntarily with their known due dates, deadlines and negative outcomes (effects) without unnecessarily delaying or postponement. The diverse scholars on procrastination demonstrated the need for a therapeutic solution to deal with the issue of procrastination for God’s stewards to start, maintain and complete their God-given tasks effectively, efficiently and successfully. To achieve such a missional goal, the question is: How to mitigate the effects of procrastination on the stewards of God? To answer the question, this article discusses three aspects of the preventative and corrective measures regarding the causes and effects of procrastination on God’s stewards within the Reformation framework: their basic nature (inception), their critical effects (reception), and their ultimate mitigation (remedy) factors in handling depressed stewards of God.
Contribution: This article adds value in uncovering biblical precepts and missional guidelines, which serve not only as the preventative and corrective measures for time and efforts management for the effective and efficient stewards’ productivity, but also as the mitigate factors in handling the causes and effects of procrastination that rob God’s stewards in executing their skills, tools and authority to complete their personal and corporative task within the faith community and beyond.