hey joe,
i feel like i have experiend the same desires that you express for people to sense the renewal of the call to mission...but i tend to agree with stan/mark that it is unlikely that this will work (even though it is certainly possible and has most certainly happened in other churches).

maybe the view that a single pastor can 'whip them up' to fulfill the great commission is similar to how we expect a single pastor to take the entire resonsibility for the care of a congregation. Sometimes, and Im not experienced enough to say how often or how not, I suppose we have to accept that people have chosen to live a certain way and ignore certain calls/commands of God.

It is sad, but maybe the best we can do is pray that God will 'move'/break/challenge/confront them in such a way that not even an inward-focused pastor can hold them back from reaching out to their friends/culture with the message of Jesus?