How are you supported financially, when you are/or looking to be in ministry?

This is one of the main issues that prevents full time ministry. Is it however essential to be in ministry full time? From my experience it is something that is left for the few. Even the apostle Paul had to rely on the trade taught to him as a boy according to Jewish custom, making tents out of goats hair to support himself with Aquila.

I think one of the important issues financially in todays church is that we have Chrstian professionals instead of professional christians. This opens the Gospel up to a wider audience, in a way that the Gospel is mostly affective. Anyone who would have been exposed to either Joseph or Daniel would have been impressed by their work ethic and wanted to have a bit of what they had. I myself spent 3 years in full time ministry working in youth, church planting and missions, realising that even in tithing that finances were rarely abundant.

The last 11 years  of my life I have worked as a secondary school teacher, teaching Religious Education and modern foreign languages to 32 young people every hour, am paid to be there and they are required to sit and listen. This means they get the anadulterated Gospel from me every lesson. This was exposure and discipleship that I could not have hoped for at the time of being full time in the Walls of a church.

Multiple streams of income however is a good idea as any government in a time of recession is not offering a particularly exciting retirement package.

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