No. Since the beginning, God has considered meaningful employment a necessity for man. It is a common error today, especially among charismatics and younger believers, to think that not needing to work for gain is evidence of greater faith. This is not a new mistake. The apostles had to deal with those who were creating trouble through idleness even in the early Church. The Middle Ages produced “mendicant Friars” and other pious people who wandered in the streets and lived from the gifts of others. Such an idea is completely foreign to the Bible. The Church is seen as a community of believers in which each one has something to contribute both personally and financially.
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing (2 Thessalonians 3:10-13).
…they have cast off their first faith. And withal they learn, to be idle, [lazy, useless, barren], wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not (1 Timothy 5:12, 13).
