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Episode #33: Priests – protect your margins!

September 22, 2017 Filed under: Leave a Comment

“The OrthoCuban on BiVocational Ministry" by Fr. Anthony Perkins Good Guys Wear Black (AFR Podcast)  September 19, 2017 In this episode, Fr. Anthony talks with Fr. Ernesto Obregon (orthocuban.com) about the special challenges that come with bi-vocational ministry and the ways we can help our bi … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deacon, Featured, General, Pastoral, podcast, Priest Tagged With: margins, tentmaking

10 Reasons Bivocational Ministry Matters

August 16, 2014 Filed under: 2 Comments

By Chuck Lawless “I didn’t come to seminary to be a bivocational minister, to have to get another kind of job,” my student told me. I may not have agreed with my student, but I did understand his thinking. Back then (almost 15 years ago), we weren’t talking much about bivocational ministr … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Preparation, Tentmaking, Vocation Tagged With: bivocational, Chuck Lawless, ministry, tentmaking

Why Did Paul Make Tents? Part Five

April 13, 2013 Filed under: 1 Comment

by Ruth Siemens VIII. What Value Has Paul’s Strategy For Us Today? I am convinced that Paul’s strategy for producing missionary lay movements, for exponential growth, holds the solution for world evangelization for the 21st century! I think we cannot fulfill our mandate without Paul. So what can w … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tentmaking, Vocation Tagged With: missions, St. Paul, tentmaking

Why Did Paul Make Tents? Part Four

April 12, 2013 Filed under: 1 Comment

by Ruth Siemens How Well Did Paul’s Strategy Work? Many of his lay evangelists were from unsavory, uneducated, pagan backgrounds. Most were slaves. None had anthropological or missiological training. It cost Paul dearly to bring them the gospel, and they risked their lives without pay to take it t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Tentmaking, Vocation Tagged With: missions, St. Paul, tentmaking

Why Did Paul Make Tents? Part Three

April 11, 2013 Filed under: 1 Comment

 by Ruth Siemens What Was Paul’s Strategy and How Effective Was It? It would take a longer paper to pull all this together, but I will just suggest a few points in Paul’s strategy. This “apostle to the Gentiles” had received a daunting commission from the risen Christ. He set out to evangelize the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tentmaking, Vocation Tagged With: missions, St. Paul, strategy, tentmaking

Why Did Paul Make Tents? Part Two

April 10, 2013 Filed under: 1 Comment

by Ruth Siemens Why Did Paul Work When He Did Not Have To? We will consider only three of the several reasons he gives. The first two are part of his formal defense in 1 Cor. 9 and the third is in 2 Thess. 3. 1. Credibility Paul says twice that he works in order not to put an “obstacle” in the wa … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Tentmaking, Vocation Tagged With: Global Opportunities, St. Paul, tentmaking

Why did Paul Make Tents? Part One

April 9, 2013 Filed under: 1 Comment

by Ruth Siemens Orthodox Christianity thrives when both laypeople and clergy are intensely committed to evangelism and mission work, and some of the best work is done by 'tentmakers' - clergy and laity who work in the world to support themselves, but whose purpose in life is building up the Body of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tentmaking, Vocation Tagged With: Fr. Max Urbanowicz, Gary Catell, Gospel To All Nations, Ruth Siemens, St. Paul, tentmaking, Willard Preacher

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