I was thinking the same thing when Chris asked about how we react in waiting for God's decision in empowering us for ministry. In light of the fact that it is God's work it is really important for us to search out what obedience in waiting for for God's gift of grace in ministering the gospel looks like. Ministering the gospel is God's work and cannot be done effectively without the grace of the Holy Spirit but at the same time we are commanded to preach the gospel of Christ.
I cannot back this up with scripture and if anyone can please help me. If anyone is a servant or minister of God then they would know God's calling in their life. Would it be possible to be a Christian and not have been made a servant of God? I don't think so, so everyone that is born again and indwelt by the spirit would have an outpouring of the grace of God in some form of ministry. So what Paul is saying in this passage directly is that God has given him not just the grace of ministry but the grace of ministry to the gentiles and he directly acknowledges that it is not of his power but of the power of God.
The main point of what I am trying to say and please correct me if I am off is that as believers that claim to have the Holy Spirit in us we should all have been made servants in some form, so the question is not what do we do while we are waiting for God to make us something but that God has made us ministers so where do we minister?
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