You are your ministry

My graduating seniors have to write and defend a practical theology.  It's a pretty big deal.  I'm doing this with the resonance from the National Youthworker's Conference in my head.  One of the constant themes of NYWC is that you are your ministry.  What makes up your spiritual DNA naturally (and appropriately) spins off into your ministry.

That means these practical theologies I'm working on are either worthless or invaluable.  Each of us has a practical theology, and the work we do in ministry is the largest evaluation of that theology.  What we do is our practical theology.  

These are worthless unless they really represent who these students are incarnate among their communities in ministry, and invaluable when they do just that.