Why pastors and preachers should not be receiving salaries
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Sure, then let’s see whether you are able to admit you’re wrong when I prove you wrong.
Lol, I am the OP and I know what I’m talking about. Prove to me how I’ve contradicted myself.
That’s your presumption, you have failed to prove it as true.
Quote me where I’ve disregarded verses. In fact, you’ve disregarded verses I’ve quoted from multiple apostles, especially about Jesus saying freely give as freely received.
Again quote me how I’ve reinterpreted and twisted scriptures. A mere accusatory statement from you about me doesn’t make it true, no ones a fool.
Prove your innocence then, what actions
from you show that you don’t love money and isn’t greedy?
I’ve apologised about any false accusations in advance, but you didn’t.
All the 5 statements are statements of biased presumptions. Just because you think they’re true doesn’t make them true or valid.
The funny thing is you don’t know me either or even what I’m truly saying in this thread. Yet you accuse me with statements that you assert is true. Take your own medicine man.
Lol, I am the OP and I know what I’m talking about. Prove to me how I’ve contradicted myself.
That’s your presumption, you have failed to prove it as true.
Quote me where I’ve disregarded verses. In fact, you’ve disregarded verses I’ve quoted from multiple apostles, especially about Jesus saying freely give as freely received.
Again quote me how I’ve reinterpreted and twisted scriptures. A mere accusatory statement from you about me doesn’t make it true, no ones a fool.
Prove your innocence then, what actions
from you show that you don’t love money and isn’t greedy?
I’ve apologised about any false accusations in advance, but you didn’t.
All the 5 statements are statements of biased presumptions. Just because you think they’re true doesn’t make them true or valid.
The funny thing is you don’t know me either or even what I’m truly saying in this thread. Yet you accuse me with statements that you assert is true. Take your own medicine man.
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Yep, you’ve just proven what I said too. It’s apparent that I must be saying everything you presume I’m saying. That’s your version of truth. LOL. And you are automatically innocent without proving it. LOL. Farewell, don’t bother replying to me because I’m not going to talk to self presumptuous hypocrites.
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Deut 25 and 1st Corinthians 9
Read and then lead someone else astray by telling them that the bible does not teach that OXEN tread out and thresh grain...
You are turning out to be someone that leads people astray...not good!
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I never said pastors should not be supported by the church
Read and then lead someone else astray by telling them that the bible does not teach that OXEN tread out and thresh grain...
You are turning out to be someone that leads people astray...not good!
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I never said pastors should not be supported by the church
Pastors should be supported by the church, but NOT in the form of paid salaries. They are to be supported ONLY with basic necessities and any expenses incurred to travel around to preach the Gospel. Pastors shouldn’t be paid salaries and they shouldn’t ask for money because that’s against the Spirit of preaching demonstrated by Jesus and all of His apostles. Church believers would have supported pastors on their own without pastors ever asking because they love them. Pastors are to be content in their lifestyles and set good examples on contentment. Asking for money when the money is spend on excesses is against the Spirit of contentment. That’s what I’m saying and there’s no contradiction as some hypocrites presume.
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And you are wrong.......there is no command that forbids a pastor from being paid a salary and the N.T. scriptures that were applicable to the Apostles CANNOT be applied to pastor teachers....and your statement is a direct contradiction.....
Why pastors and preachers should not be receiving salaries
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I never said pastors should not be supported by the church
Why pastors and preachers should not be receiving salaries
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I never said pastors should not be supported by the church
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Hypocrites ignore the fact that the apostolic style and spirit of preaching is passed down also to teachers since the time of Paul. The apostolic style and spirit of preaching is AGAINST asking for money during preaching sessions. Yet that is what pastors today do, they ask for money during preaching and it is this act of asking for money that allows them to receive their salaries. Timothy is a teacher of the Gospel, and Paul strictly warned him about the love of money and wanting to get rich. Asking for money is a primary way of getting rich for most false preachers and is an action that shows they love money.
If all pastors today stopped asking for money then that would be in line with the apostolic spirit of preaching. When this asking for money stops the salaries will also stop.
If all pastors today stopped asking for money then that would be in line with the apostolic spirit of preaching. When this asking for money stops the salaries will also stop.
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The early church teachers who followed after the examples of Paul and the other apostles never asked for money to pay themselves salaries. If they received any support from believers it was because the believers gave on their own accords based on love. There was no asking on the part of those teachers, ever.
This is the true spirit of how preachers are to be supported, by asking for support preachers have already erred because it shows they don’t trust God to provide and they demand love from others. Through asking and asking non-stop rather than allowing believers to support them out of love they slowly and unwittingly go on the path of peddling God’s word for money.
Then the devil creeps in and use their dependence on salaries to rob them of their ministry. Because these pastors rely so much on the crowd to pay them they will over time water down the Gospel so that they don’t offend their sources of income. Yet apostle Paul said if he was still in the business of pleasing people he should NOT be a servant of God.
This is the true spirit of how preachers are to be supported, by asking for support preachers have already erred because it shows they don’t trust God to provide and they demand love from others. Through asking and asking non-stop rather than allowing believers to support them out of love they slowly and unwittingly go on the path of peddling God’s word for money.
Then the devil creeps in and use their dependence on salaries to rob them of their ministry. Because these pastors rely so much on the crowd to pay them they will over time water down the Gospel so that they don’t offend their sources of income. Yet apostle Paul said if he was still in the business of pleasing people he should NOT be a servant of God.
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Asking for money is a snare both to the pastors doing it and ultimately to the congregations that hear from them. This act makes the pastors slaves not to God, but to the ones paying them. So is it a surprise pastors are now trying to tailor suit the Gospel to the hearers in blatant disregard to the truth? The Gospel warned about how believers will heap to themselves teachers to tickle their itching ears, preaching to them what they want to hear rather than the plain truth taught by Jesus. And why do teachers teach what people want to hear? Because they receive salaries from the hearers. They are slaves to anyone who is willing to pay for their preaching and they allow themselves to be enslaved by asking for money.
So no truth is being preached and those who truly hunger for the Gospel is robbed of hearing the word of God. How can anyone who approve of such things be innocent?
So no truth is being preached and those who truly hunger for the Gospel is robbed of hearing the word of God. How can anyone who approve of such things be innocent?
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