What is a bivocational pastor? — the BM article
From the porch story the hosts segue into an article, 'What is a bivocational pastor plus 10 tips if you are one.' They read the definition — pastors serving churches that can't pay full-time, or keeping a second job to save the church money — and a host pushes back: neither reason matches him, since he takes no money for the church part ('I'd still only have one vocation'). They note Paul's tentmaking as the biblical precedent and the LifeWay finding that 20–26% of pastors consider themselves bivocational ('We're gonna call it the BM from here on out'), riffing through the article's ten tips.
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