Paul as a tentmaker

[Daughter of Ararat]

Did Paul remain a tent maker after his calling to Christian ministry?

 

[singpeace]

I would say yes. These verses show Paul worked at his trade in order to financially support his ministry and missions.



Acts 20:34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.

1 Corinthians 4:12 We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

1 Corinthians 9:18 What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not make use of my rights in preaching it.

2 Corinthians 11:7 Was it a sin for me to lower myself in order to elevate you by preaching the gospel of God to you free of charge?

2 Corinthians 12:13 How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you?

1 Thessalonians 2:9 Surely you remember, brothers, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you.

2 Thessalonians 3:8 nor did we eat anyone's food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

 

[ByTheSpirit]

Yes Paul continued as a tent maker in order to provide for his own ministry. He never asked anyone for support for himself. From what scriptures say, he didn't refuse gifts if they came, but he didn't ask for them.

 

[Source Scripture]

Yes Paul continued as a tent maker in order to provide for his own ministry. He never asked anyone for support for himself. From what scriptures say, he didn't refuse gifts if they came, but he didn't ask for them.

Agreed, and as you mentioned gifts, he did indeed call it a gift in Philippians 4:17, not a tithe, not a demand, but a gift. In 4:11, he also said he did not seek it, he did not go around looking for money from people, with his hand out.

He also used his working hard values, to show the difference between him, and the false apostles of Corinth, in verse 11:12.

Paul was mighty in Spirit, yet was happy to make tents.

 

[Source Scripture]

I would say yes. These verses show Paul worked at his trade in order to financially support his ministry and missions.



Acts 20:34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.

1 Corinthians 4:12 We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

1 Corinthians 9:18 What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not make use of my rights in preaching it.

2 Corinthians 11:7 Was it a sin for me to lower myself in order to elevate you by preaching the gospel of God to you free of charge?

2 Corinthians 12:13 How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you?

1 Thessalonians 2:9 Surely you remember, brothers, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you.

2 Thessalonians 3:8 nor did we eat anyone's food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

Good verses, as Paul also stressed that he did not want to burden others, so he worked not to do so, or put an obstacle in front of the gospel in 1 Corinthians 9.

 

[Source Scripture]

2 Corinthians 6:5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;


11:23 Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.


It's believed the sleepless nights, were Paul working, after his daily preaching.


11:27 in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

Yes, Paul was a tentmaker.

 

[Yahu]

Did Paul remain a tent maker after his calling to Christian ministry?

He was probably a Tallit maker. It was the 'prayer tent', ie the head covering.

 

[Daughter of Ararat]

Someone was telling me that Christian ministers, in the Bible and when they really follow God, give up their secular jobs when they are called to ministry, like when Peter and Andrew stopped being fishers of fish and became fishers of men. So by this thinking, Paul would have left his profession as a tent-maker and toiled in ministry.

 

[Yahu]

Someone was telling me that Christian ministers, in the Bible and when they really follow God, give up their secular jobs when they are called to ministry, like when Peter and Andrew stopped being fishers of fish and became fishers of men. So by this thinking, Paul would have left his profession as a tent-maker and toiled in ministry.

Paul traveled and didn't live on donations but helped pay his own way. It helped him be received IMO. It is kind of hard to be a fishermen when you leave behind your boat, nets and the sea. It wasn't an option for Peter and Andrew to continue in their profession. Granted Yeshua did send them out to catch a fish and pull the gold coin out of its mouth! So they did still fish at times.

My pastor is also master plumber with his own business. I was called into a prophetic ministry about 25 years ago. I never gave up my secular job for it. As a matter of fact, it was because of my job that my 1st major impact happened while I was in the military. I was a computer tech, not a Chaplin and there was a coven of witches led by a high priestess of Ashtoreth in my dorm. I got to play Elijah to her Jezebel while still holding down a normal job.

So, IMO don't believe whoever is telling you that you have to give up your career to be called into some kind of ministry. It is nonsense IMO. Now one of my disciples holds a full payed ministry position as a family counselor but she donates her entire pay back to the church.

 

[Biblicist]

Did Paul remain a tent maker after his calling to Christian ministry?

It seems that one of the major problems Paul faced in Corinth was that he would not take up the offer of financial patronage by the leading members of the Corinthian assembly. Paul knew quite well that this patronage would come with a few strings attached so to keep himself free of the powerful members of this congregation he managed to find a job in his trade.

 

[Source Scripture]

He was probably a Tallit maker. It was the 'prayer tent', ie the head covering.

Highly unlikely, because leather is mentioned in the Greek for tents in Acts 18, yet a Tallit has no leather. Paul stayed in Corinth where large sleeping tents were needed because they had Olympic type games there, so visitors would need lodging. Paul was from Tarsus, where large actual tents were a popular industry. Also there is no reason to think that it took 3 people to make a Tallit, but large tents would fit in this verse below. Do we picture Paul, helping to fold up a small Tallit here? Not really, it was about tents, not a small garment.


Acts 18:3 And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them, 3 and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

 

[jiminpa]

Someone was telling me that Christian ministers, in the Bible and when they really follow God, give up their secular jobs when they are called to ministry, like when Peter and Andrew stopped being fishers of fish and became fishers of men. So by this thinking, Paul would have left his profession as a tent-maker and toiled in ministry.

That position requires taking a chapter or two completely out of context, and ignoring the entire rest of scripture. The vase majority of believers in the New Testament went about their business, and served God.

Acts 16:14
One of those who listened to us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a dealer in fabrics dyed in purple. She was [already] a worshiper of God, and the Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.

 

[mrhappy3]

PAUL was smart - and a grafter, never afraid to get his hands dirty - respect.

 

[Frogster]

PAUL was smart - and a grafter, never afraid to get his hands dirty - respect.

he like Moses, could have had a better life externally, he was a leading jew in his time, and no doubt did exceed his own peers, full of zeal, but counted it as loss Phil 3, he was exceeding externally, until the "but" came.



Gal 1:14 And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,

 

[mrhappy3]

and what a great BUT it was.........a genuine conversion and calling, irresistible in fact and I had similar. I am so grateful. I wasn't looking for it. Thats why I walk in grace towards others 99% of the time, I can't help it.

 

[Frogster]

and what a great BUT it was.........a genuine conversion and calling, irresistible in fact and I had similar. I am so grateful. I wasn't looking for it. Thats why I walk in grace towards others 99% of the time, I can't help it.

Amen!

Exactly, you (we) can't help it...

grace, we can't help God.

 

[Daughter of Ararat]

That position requires taking a chapter or two completely out of context, and ignoring the entire rest of scripture. The vase majority of believers in the New Testament went about their business, and served God.

Acts 16:14
One of those who listened to us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a dealer in fabrics dyed in purple. She was [already] a worshiper of God, and the Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.

I think the idea is that in contrast to Lydia who was a believer, Paul was called to more of a vocation of ministry. Is there scripture that shows people having multiple vocations?

 

[Frogster]

I think the idea is that in contrast to Lydia who was a believer, Paul was called to more of a vocation of ministry. Is there scripture that shows people having multiple vocations?

Luke was a doctor.

Col 4:14 Our dear friend Luke, the doctor, and Demas send greetings.

 

[Frogster]

Barnabas, Titus, Silas the prophet, and Timothy all worked while with Paul.

 

[DennisTate]

Did Paul remain a tent maker after his calling to Christian ministry?

A guest on Sid Roth a few weeks ago stated that the original word for tent maker would more accurately be translated as prayer shawls! There are totally different words for pup tents and for the large tends that the Bedouins use?!

The Jewish prayer shawl in a sense is to act like the tabernacle/tent of the time of Moshe/Moses! Pastor William Seymour used a box over his head to help himself focus his attention on God!