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You Are A Minister

Even several hundred years ago, Martin Luther knew that all Christians were to be workplace pastors to those around them (in other words, you are to be a minister where you work):

It is pure invention that bishops, priests, and monks are to be called the “spiritual estate”; while princes, artisans, and farmers are the “temporal estate.” That is indeed a fine bit of lying and hypocrisy…. All Christians are truly of the “spiritual estate,” and there is among them no difference at all but that of office….. There is really no difference between laymen and priests, princes and bishops, “spirituals” and “temporals,” as they call them, except that of office and work…. A cobbler, a smith, a farmer, each has the work and office of his trade, and yet they are all alike consecrated priests and bishops, and everyone by means of his own work or office must benefit and serve every other, that in this way many kinds of work may be done for the bodily and spiritual welfare of the community, even as all the members of the body serve one another.
–Martin Luther