With Startups There's No Such Thing as a "Closed Country"

We know that bivocational ministry is as old as the New Testament. Paul was the shining example of this and all the tensions he faced when funding his ministry. Sometimes churches supported him in the same way we support foreign missionaries today. However, most of the time, we know he simply worked his trade to care for his financial needs. Simultaneously, we can also see how his actual physical presence in the marketplace in cities like Ephesus provided him access to relationships that would n...