Wages in the Kingdom: Learning from Bivocational Ministry Models in the Early Church

What can Jesus, Paul, and the early church teach pastors about sustainable, bivocational ministry?

In Wages in the Kingdom, biblical scholar Jason Mills argues that for much of the early church, pastoral ministry was shared and self-sustaining. Drawing on careful exegesis of New Testament texts and historical evidence, Mills demonstrates that most early church leaders were not paid for ministry itself but sustained themselves by working a trade.

This type of self-supporting ministry began wi...