If Jesus truly inaugurated the new creation, wherein sin and the curse are overturned, then we foremost ought to campaign for the deposing of wicked leaders, for total social equality, for environmental restoration, etc. (as indeed many inaugurationalists have done). If our inheritance and resurrection has already begun, then where is the impetus to take up our cross in this life and endure martyrdom (Luke 9:23; 14:27)? Why should we follow in the footsteps of our Master (1 Peter 2:21), enduring hardships “while suffering unjustly” (v.19)? Why are we called to hate our lives in this age (Luke 14:26; John 12:25), laying down our lives as Jesus did (John 15:13; 1 John 3:16)? Why should we rejoice in persecution (Matt. 5:12; Acts 5:41)? What is the purpose of being the scum of the earth in this age, paraded around like those condemned to die in the arena (1 Cor. 4:9–13)? Why should we love our lives not unto death (Rev.12:11)? Why should we be those “always carrying in the body the death of Jesus. . . always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake” (2 Cor. 4:10–11)? And why should we “share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings” (2 Cor. 1:5), being “united with him in a death like his” (Rom. 6:5), rejoicing “in so far as you share Christ’s sufferings” (1 Peter 4:13), “filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions” (Col.1:24), “becoming like him in his death” (Phil. 3:10)? Why should we sell our possessions and give to the needy (Luke 12:33; Acts 2:45), joyfully accepting the confiscation of our property (Heb. 10:34)? Why should we soberly prepare our minds for grievous trials, setting our hope fully on the grace to be brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:6–13)? If our inheritance has already been inaugurated, why then should we heed Paul’s radical exhortation to forsake living for this age in every area of life: 

This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.(1 Cor. 7:29–31)

John P. Harrigan, the Gospel of Christ Crucified