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Podcast: Open the Bible UK Daily
Episode: Your Example Matters More Than Your Rights
Description: You yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because… we worked night and day. 2 Thessalonians 3:7-8
The apostle Paul worked incredibly hard. He was a brilliant scholar, but he also had a trade that he earned money from while he was serving the church. Sometimes there was money to support him, and sometimes there was not.
When there was no money, Paul made and sold tents, and then he gave himself to ministry. He was bi-vocational, which is why he said that he “worked night and day” (3:8). Paul worked two jobs so as not to be a burden o...