{"id":11993,"date":"2016-03-31T23:36:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T03:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?p=11993"},"modified":"2016-03-31T23:36:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T03:36:24","slug":"working-in-a-for-profit-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2016\/03\/31\/working-in-a-for-profit-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Working in a for-profit business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does the New Testament say? Jesus spent 85 percent\u00a0of his working life as a carpenter. The root word for carpenter is tekton,\u00a0which has similar roots\u00a0to \u201ctechnology.\u201d Since there was\u00a0little wood in the area, Jesus was probably not a builder of cabinets or other wood products. Research has found the city of Sepphoris was being built around that time, and that Jesus and Joseph likely had jobs as stone masons, building homes and other structures for Greeks and Romans, not necessarily Jewish folks. The Son of God likely\u00a0spent most of his earthly life as a\u00a0builder in a for-profit business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does the New Testament say? Jesus spent 85 percent\u00a0of his working life as a carpenter. The root word for carpenter is tekton,\u00a0which has similar roots\u00a0to \u201ctechnology.\u201d Since there was\u00a0little wood in the area, Jesus was probably not a builder of cabinets or other wood products. Research has found the city of Sepphoris was being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}