Ministry can be an external. A lady who ran a retreat center told me that a young minister came through and met an older minister there. The younger one kept asking him, “What's your ministry, brother?”
“I don't know,” he replied.
“Come on, now. What's your ministry?”
Finally the older gentleman said, “I don't have one. I just talk about Christ.”
The young man had an outer identity called ministry. — The Rest of the Gospel: When the partial Gospel has worn you out, page 24
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Here, external means something other than God, something visible, that can be felt, hung on to. So, what is the external thing that you hang on to? Whatever it is, it stands between you and dependence on the Holy Spirit.
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