Atheists also have a lot of opinions about how believers should behave that have nothing to do with what Scripture says about what makes a real believer.
A hypocrite is someone who doesn't live what they believe, not someone who doesn't live how YOU think they should.
Not everyone is capable of going. Some can't because of age. Some can't because of health. One shouldn't if not called by God. Going and being out of God's will on something will not work, no matter how admirable the mission.
Other factors in people going are that someone has to pay for those who go, and that there are those in this country who need to hear the Gospel. Unbelievers are not found only overseas. Once there are believers overseas, they are also responsible to share. Should they come over here, while we go over there? Or would it make more sense that people evangelize where they are with people they already know?
Your first discipleship responsibility is in your family.
Your defense is right on the money - those who are ignorant of the faith have little ground to stand on when criticizing the faithful. But, he did swerve into a truth.
How many Christians LIVE as if every aspect of what we profess to be true - God’s Word of the Bible - is actually true?
I mean, really, wouldn’t we all live differently if we lived like we TRULY believed in the all powerful, all sovereign God?
Wouldn’t we more adamantly proclaim the Truth if we truly believed that those who didn’t accept it were eternal beings going to spend all of their eternal afterdeath separated from God?
Truly convicting, eh?
You are making excuses.
Like I said before, true believers would risk EVERYTHING for their god. Otherwise, faith is almost always, if not always, a psychological convenience, and a justification tool.
Which means only people who believe in something can ever be hypocrites. Larry Flint, for instance, will never be guilty of hypocrisy. It's easy not to be a hypocrite --- just have no values, morals or beliefs and you will never be a hypocrite.
Hypocrisy is after all, the price that vice pays to virtue.