Is it biblically acceptable for a mother to hold a full-time job outside of the home?

This was a question asked to Pastor John a few years back and this is what he had to say.

It can be.

In fact, I would say outside of the home is a complex statement.

It was a complex, I mean, it was complex early on when the farm, I mean only after the

industrial revolution was home and work separated, right, by and large.

Everywhere there's an agrarian kind of culture, home and work are just together.

If all the kids are weave in the baskets that you sell to make a living, are you home?

If the garden around the house is what supports the family and husbands out there building a barn and you're doing this or you're at home.

So all that to say, the very question is ambiguous and it deals today, right?

A wife can have a full-time job.

My niece has a full-time job.

We're off to dinner home.

He works for a company three states away.

So having said it can be, I want to discourage it.

I just want to discourage it because mothering and home making are huge and glorious jobs.

What children need at age 1, 5, 6, 14, 18?

What they need is simply amazing and what it calls forth from a woman's creativity and a woman's heart.

And a woman's mind, personally, for each one of these little ones that are coming along.

Or just the home, the home here, where ministry can happen.

And you're not enslaved by anybody's clock.

You can say, I'm going to work my tail off for King Jesus.

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