While God, all by Himself, can accomplish anything without help, one who believes that God wants us to sit around like mushrooms awaiting our "fate" is likely misreading and misapplying Scripture. We ought not sit back in lazy spectatorhood while "Sharia Law" ravages our civilization.
Assuming that you did not grow up speaking Arabic, remember that the US has European roots and that you owe a debt of gratitude to God's servants: Pius V, Don Juan of Austria and King Jan Sobieski. They and most of Europe asked and they received. God COULD certainly have achieved the same result without them, but history records that He accomplished the preservation of the Judaeo-Christian civilization of Europe (and thus of the US) through their earthly efforts.
St. Paul did not sit idly around the old homestead speculating that there was just nothing he could do to spread the Faith. And a good thing too!
Just as there were Saxon Protestants among the Catholic Sobieski's forces, so today there are plenty of Christians of all denominations ready to unite to resist and defeat the "jihad." You can catch the action on TV from the comfort of your living room or read the updates on Drudge and we won't resent your survival through the efforts of those willing to set aside differences as necessary to preserve civilization. You need not thank us when it is over. We are used to carrying passive free riders.
“While God, all by Himself, can accomplish anything without help, one who believes that God wants us to sit around like mushrooms awaiting our “fate” is likely misreading and misapplying Scripture.”
I never made any such claim, as obviously God never suffers any of his creatures to remain on holiday. I merely asserted the fact, which you seem to agree with, that God, not ourselves, is ultimately in charge of all world events. Thus, since all powers are established by God anyway, there is no reason to compromise Christianity for mere political gain. When it comes down to it, it is the great commission which trumps all your Jihads and worldly troubles, and without that firm foundation we have nothing. There is no divine commandment to do any of the things you have listed. We are commanded, simply, to teach all nations, presumably with sound and uncompromised doctrine, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Anything beyond this is mere vanity, hoping to conquer through a cultural Christianity which has no substance or power.