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- noun Plural form of
tentmaker .
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Examples
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He stayed with Aquila and Priscilla and worked alongside them as "tentmakers" (see Acts 18: 2-3).
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He stayed with Aquila and Priscilla and worked alongside them as "tentmakers" (see Acts 18: 2-3).
stylos 2009
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It wants to mobilize 50 percent of Korean churches into missions, recruit one of every 300 Korean Christians to become missionaries, adopt 200 unreached people groups every five years, and send one million tentmakers into difficult-access countries by 2020.
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Over the past few years I have been working on a thesis about the training of tentmakers.
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Technically speaking, student missionaries are also tentmakers.
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• Paul was willing to cooperate with tentmakers in the market, even though they were not Christian believers (Acts 18: 3).
Seizing Tomorrow 2007
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Where tentmakers are part of business ventures that facilitate cross-cultural mission goals, there is substantial overlap with business as mission.
Unleashing the Brazilian Evangelical Missionary Force through a Business as Mission model 2007
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In this connection, the “Tentmakers Roundtable Conference of Hyderabad,” referred to above, made a significant distinction between self-employed tentmakers and the other - employed ones.
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But one of the conclusions I have come to is that traditional training for tentmakers has started at the wrong place.
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While in Corinth, he met some fellow tentmakers—Priscilla and her husband, Aquila—who were believers as well.
Saints & Scoundrels of the Bible Linda Chaffee Taylor 2008
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