A farmer took a piece of bad earth and made things flourish. Proud of his accomplishments, he asked his minister to come by and see what he had done. The minister was impressed. "That's the tallest corn I've ever seen. I've never seen anything as big as those melons. Praise the Lord!" He went on that way about every crop, praising the Lord for it all. Finally the farmer couldn't take it anymore. "Reverend," he said, "I wish you could have seen this place when the Lord was doing it by himself."

God bestows upon us grace and salvation, but without any input from us, God's mission on earth could not be fulfilled.  We are God's hands and feet in the world, disciples and apostles commissioned for evangelism and mission.