Do you think that pastors should receive salaries?

[Sue D.]

Yes, the churches being talked about in Revelation -- pastors Need to be in that book to see how their church relates to those. We Are to learn from Scripture.

Yes, God has blessed this country So Much and look what we're doing with Him. Society has been taking Him out of all the places where He Needs to be. And we wonder why we have problems.

Scripture Also tells us that the poor will always be with us. And there will also always be the rich. We're Supposed to be content in which ever place we are in.

Contentedness can be challenging.

 

[Blake H]

I'm not completely against pastors receiving a salary from the church and I think that they should receive a decent salary. Not a high salary, I don't want a pastor that's just wasting church money to buy a Rolls Royce and a mansion.

Theirs a couple of TV preachers I have to wonder what their salaries are, their net worth is in the millions.

 

[Blake H]

In a church's financial transparency report that's usually made public I'd like to see how much money goes towards staff including the pastor and assistant pastors.

 

[Sue D.]

In any churches I've been in -- there are periodic business meetings in which financial reports are made along with reports from all committees that have been formed. Everyone gets a copy of financial reports and the person in charge Of the financing encourages questions during the meetings. And questions Do get asked.

Our pastors live in the community along with everyone else.

 

[brighthouse98]

What a person makes for a living is there own business. Are we not worth the money we make? And if someone said to you that you make way to much on your job perhaps you might flip them something. LOL I hung with my pastor for 2 years,and the stuff they go through, not just with the church grumbling and stuff,but getting calls in the middle of the night to pray for people was beyond belief!! Crying like little children when they should be helping instead of complaining all the time!( 1 Tim 5:17-20!!) And no, I am not a pastor either! lol We tend to our own business, let them attend to there's. If a Pastor is lazy, then speak with him about it. Otherwise concentrate on how in the Lord you may aid him.

 

[Blake H]

Thank you for the answers so far.

 

[Enxu]

Being supported by the church after FREELY hearing the Gospel is different from asking for support from the church, which is what pastors are doing today. The apostles never asked for support on their own, the support came willingly from the church because they love the apostles. The command by God for His preachers to be supported was not a command for pastors to ask for money from the church but a command to the church to support those who TRULY and FREELY preach His message without expecting anything in return. You will find zero example In the Bible of God’s true prophets ever asking for support for the godly work they did. However, false prophets and preachers almost certainly always asked for support in the form of money or otherwise. If a pastor is asking to be paid he is NOT freely preaching God’s Gospel. Pastors have it backwards when they think God’s command to support preachers gives them the right to ask for money and to be paid because the heart of a true preacher is to do God’s work with no expectation of return. If they get supported it’s not because they ever asked for it.

 

[Enxu]

who supported Jesus and his disciples during his ministry?

When did Jesus and His disciples actively ask for support and go around with donation bags collecting money from the public? Yet the modern day pastors are doing this in their preaching sessions and use their pastor role as a right to get rich and greedy. They are not FREELY preaching the Gospel like Jesus and His disciples did.

If they stop asking for money then there is no objection from me anymore.

 

[Enxu]

Why do I object pastors asking to be paid and asking for money? Not because I am against them being supported with basic needs, because by asking for money unbelievers accuse Christianity of being hypocritical and even reject the Gospel as false because Christian pastors look like conmen when they ask for money! My ex classmate and her family rejected the Gospel precisely because the church looked like conmen for asking money every service!

Are they totally wrong? No! Conmen of all sorts will always ask for money and that’s how people will judge us when WE ask money from them. Then some people will give excuses and say we should not be bothered by false accusations. But is this the attitude we should have when criticised?

Ask yourselves, are you doing something righteous by asking for money? Obviously not! So if you are accused as conmen, then it is not a defense for you to say you are falsely accused. People have every right to question your motives when you ask for money because the world is full of examples of how conmen profit by asking for money. So how can you defend yourself as innocent when your actions are as dubious as real conmen?

So if you really want to remedy the situation, you ought to stop asking for money rather than make excuses and justify what you did. Paul will not even eat if it causes someone to stumble, what are the pastors today willing to do so God’s Gospel will not be rejected because of their own actions? Ask yourselves pastors because you will be judged more severely for being teachers!

 

[brighthouse98]

Paul took note of those who would not support him.( Phil 4:15-20) I understand that not every pastor is who he suppose to be!! But we are suppose to stay led by Holy Spirit as well!!( Rom 8:14-15) So if the body is doing there job,we will not have to be concerned about there job.

 

[PloughBoy]

Paul, worked. But all the times He was in hiding or lock up in prison, he needed support. In Prison, he needed clothing, in prison he needed food, in prison he needed candles, in prison he needed something’s to write with, in prison he needed something to write on. Many times, he was abandon by fellow Christians because they was afraid of getting locked up for helping him when he was locked up. To remind you, he was not locked up in 20 century (USA).. The support Paul needed and received and the support some pastors of today are receiving. “Is like the difference between night and day”. “ I hope you can get the picture”.

 

[Enxu]

Paul, worked. But all the times He was in hiding or lock up in prison, he needed support. In Prison, he needed clothing, in prison he needed food, in prison he needed candles, in prison he needed something’s to write with, in prison he needed something to write on. Many times, he was abandon by fellow Christians because they was afraid of getting locked up for helping him when he was locked up. To remind you, he was not locked up in 20 century (USA)..❤ The support Paul needed and received and the support some pastors of today are receiving. “Is like the difference between night and day”. “ I hope you can get the picture”.

Paul had a lot of needs, and these are actual needs, not wants. Yet, you don’t see Paul EVER asking to be paid any form of salary for his ministry. In fact, he went so far as to not burden the church with even his own needs.

Contrast Paul’s godly example with the hypocrisy and promotion of greed by the modern church salary system. Pastors are offered a salary, so many are teachers of a church based on how appealing that salary is, not based on how qualified they are as overseers according to the standards set out by apostle Paul.

Many pastors are pastors for the wrong reasons and are motivated by greed. They are tempted to preach a message that is watered down in order to PLEASE the audience so that their paychecks will not diminish or completely vanish.

This is exactly what the church salary system promotes and the Gospel prophesied about people heaping to themselves teachers who will tell them what they want to hear rather than the truth! This prophecy is fulfilled by the modern day salary system in the church because pastors need to compromise their messages to tell what the audience want to hear so that they can continue to be paid by their audience!

 

[PloughBoy]

Apostle Paul, gave a example, he said follow me as I follow “Christ”. He also said: mark that man if he does not follow him as a example. How clear can you get?

 

[PloughBoy]

Far as I am concern the institutional church, I say most is anti- bible! They make their own rules and practices. It is theirs,!let them do what they want to. It does not bother me. “Bible says I am the temple of God. I believe it.