too much about the flow of thought in Luke’s Gospel, is pretty straightforward. Your identity is not bound up with your ministry; it is bound up with your election: “Your names are written in heaven.” Many of us in ministry spend a great deal of our lives struggling with the ferocious giant called envy, as we foolishly tie our identities and significance to the scope of our ministries, and then resent those who are more fruitful. But Jesus insists we are to rejoice because our names are written in