The Secret Business Career of Jesus

Free 60-day series, Scripture read as strategy: https://faithandstrategy.com 27 years in business. Not one sermon in that time. Mark calls him a tekton, not a preacher. Rome ranked that trade below owning land. 122 of his 130 Gospel appearances happen in the marketplace. 45 of 52 parables are business illustrations. Nazareth's contempt in Mark 6 wasn't confusion, they'd watched him work with his hands for other people. Sepphoris, four miles away and mid-rebuild his whole childhood, gives the archaeology behind that. So does the trilingual demand of a working tekton in Galilee: Greek for contracts, Aramaic at home, Hebrew for Torah. The disciples weren't recruited from the religious establishment. Fishermen running a two-boat operation. A tax collector who understood ledgers. That was the resume Jesus was looking for. If business has felt like the less spiritual path, this is the other half of his life you weren't shown. Proverbs series, built for business decisions: https://faithandstrategy.com Join our Community: https://www.skool.com/faith-business-... 0:00 Businessman before preacher 0:53 Never called a preacher, only teacher 1:33 Nazareth: "Isn't this the carpenter?" 2:18 Tekton: the trade Rome looked down on 3:32 Sepphoris: the boomtown next door 5:39 Three languages, one trade 6:49 Parables built from the marketplace 9:07 Disciples: fishermen, not scholars 11:16 Matthew, the ledger, and what a talent was worth 13:30 Why this matters for your work --- jesus was a businessman, jesus carpenter, tekton meaning, mark 6 jesus carpenter, sepphoris jesus, jesus and business, parables of jesus explained, jesus fishermen disciples, jesus tax collector matthew, faith and business, scripture as strategy, christian entrepreneur, business in the bible, jesus rabbi teacher, biblical business principles, faith and strategy, proverbs on business, metacognito, jesus never called preacher