Paul, for example, worked as an artisan — a tentmaker — all through his years as a church planter. At one point, he said to his friends, “We worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you.”10 Paul didn’t see his job as a distraction from his calling to the kingdom, but as a vital part of it. If tent making wasn’t beneath the most prolific author in the New Testament, why wouldn’t it be good enough for us?
