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Chapter 12
Lie #6: The Final Lie
The lie I tell because I have kind of believed
it my entire life until I moved to China and
started working with the underground house
church is that ministry MUST be a full-time paid
position.
As Christians in the West, we kind of feel—even
if we do not say it—that if you have a side job to
take care of your family while doing ministry it is
because you are not very good at ministry.
But Christian ministers should not be any different from regular people. We should all know
the joys of faking an illness and calling in sick to
get the day of of work. The misery of Monday
mornings should be shared by everyone. Pastors
are no exception.
In some ways, Christians have declared a war
on work, as if there were a law against hard labor. Unfortunately, pastors would need to have a
union to have such a law.
If we are in the ministry, we shun regular jobs.
