what we do?

Look at these two verses, compare, contrast.

Romans 3:21-22 "But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: "

James 2: 14-17 "What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead."

As we can see, the passage from Romans describes that we are save by faith, and not by works. And in contrast, the passage from romans describes that we are saved by what we do. Now, it seems these two passages cannot be reconciled, but if we look closely, we can see that they actually work together.
Paul, in Romans, was writing to people who thought that just by doing good deeds that that would save them and James was writing to people who thought that if they agreed with the teachings of Christ that that would save them. These two writers are saying that neither is correct, doing works won't save you and belief won't save you. It is when the works come out of the faith or when action flows from faith that we are saved, works are the evidence of faith.

But what is it that we should be doing? The Great Commission maybe? Yes, going to all the earth and spreading the gospel of Jesus. What is another word for this? Anyone? Ministry.

How does ministry happen? Is it that it's a choice, something we do? I think not. It's allowing God to occupy our very being, it's being saturated by the spirit of God, it's saying, "hey, I'm going to let God flow through me like he flowed through Jesus.

Alright, now that we've got that, what is ministry? Acts 1:1 "In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach," In this we notice how close together "to do" and "to teach" are. This signifies a unity of sorts, so we don't get the idea that teaching and doing are two different things. It means that they are one in this idea of ministry, where doing is teaching through action and teaching is an act of doing, they are one and the same. Check this with the passages from James and Romans and notice that the kind of faith a true christian has is the kind that has evidence which is doing and the doing is minstry that flows from the faith. notice here that doing means flow, an artistic flow and not something like painting a barn which is hard work.