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Originally Posted by livingbygrace
Did Paul cease to be a tent maker as soon as he was called?
Did people not support Christ and his disciples from the money they earned?
Are you saying that every Christian should leave their paid job and work full time Evangelising?
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This is my defence to those who sit in judgement on me. Don't we have the rightr to food and drink? Don't we have the right to takle a believing wife along with us as do the other Apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas
Or is it only I and Barnabas who must work for a living.
1 Cor 9:3-6
That's pretty clear to me, Paul still at times worked to earn a living.
I twice lived in a Christian Community. The leaders there believed not all were called to such a life, and many returned with their blessing to paid employment
But in saying all of this I do recognise that most Christians(especially in the west, myself included) often fail to live up to what God really wants from us. But I don't believe every Christian is called to pack up work, or abandon a family while they preach the word