BiVO: A Modern-Day Guide for Bi-Vocational Saints

No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

The gospel is about letting God bring redemption and the way of his crazy kingdom into our frantically dysfunctional patterns of living.

Was Judas a bad guy? Probably not. Just like us. Judas loved Jesus. But like two horses pulling the chariot of the king, one horse runs pure, looking straight ahead and faithfully pulling, while the other horse looks around, gets distracted and allows concerns and anxieties to cloud his vision. When the two horses fought inside Judas, eventually a

Making disciples is easier and cheaper than keeping consumer Christians happy.

At present, the average Christian gives to the church at the exact percentage non-believers give to charities—just fewer than three percent.

If none of us got paid, God would still expect us to lead and serve the world.

You cannot serve both God and money

The goal of our calling isn’t to be bi-vocational, fully paid, or volunteer. The goal of our existence is to learn how to leverage everything God has given us.

If you want to serve God with your life, you cannot serve your own interests, pad your wallets, put away enough to render faith irrelevant, or build your own kingdom. God’s kingdom has, and always will, operate on the principle of manna, not mammon. God will always provide for his people as they do his work his way.