How Commerce Becomes Discipleship Through Conversation

Aquila and Priscilla met the Apostle Paul through a simple commercial partnership—tentmakers working side by side in Corinth. Yet Maclaren observes that "as they abode together and worked at their trade, there would be many earnest talks about the Christ, and these ended in both husband and wife becoming disciples." The mundane labor of their craft became the crucible where faith was forged.…