Position

Why does the Christian universe in the west wait for position before it will minister. What is that? What is it that causes us to wait until we are a pastor or until we have been given the title "director" to step out and bring healing for Jesus. In reading Bonhoeffer's "The Cost of Discipleship" I found the following quote referring to disciples:

"These men without possessions or power, these strangers on earth, these sinners, these followers of Jesus, have in their life with him renounced their own dignity for they are merciful. They have an irresistible love for the down-=trodden, the sick, the wretched, the wronged, the outcast and all who are tortured with anxiety."

This kind of ministry doesn't wait for Sunday morning. It doesn't wait for Wednesday night Bible study or any such formal gathering. It is the natural outflow of the true servant of Christ that picks up the hurting where they are at and bandages their wounds. Now if we started living that kind of life we'd be going somewhere.