Should a Pastor, Pastor a Church for free

[Pastor Lorenzo Edwards]

Should a pastor that spends most of his time preaching and teaching get paid for what God has him to do? I know what the scriptures says about this, but would you pastor for free?

[Rev.Dr.CVJaganMohan]

Dear Pastor (Urgent Prayer Request)
please pray for my niece who is suffering with fever and stomach ache since two and half months and pray for my children school fees which is due for 2 months and entry extension in USA and their future Ministry in North India
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[Bishop Stewart McClain]

A pastor should get paid for his services, Pastors go to school have to pay for there own tuition. A true Pastor wont to serve the people of God fulltime. He needs time to seek the lord, pray,fast and not worry about bills and everything else like that.It is not easy being a pastor it is a lot of hard work. You have to deal with people that do not wont you to have anything but they are able to have whatever they like. They will tell you, a pastor should not worry about a new car and they go by themselves a new car. People do not respect pastors like they use to. If it was not for pastors obeying God a lot of people will still be on drugs, fornicates, gossipers, adulteries, Etc. God uses man to complete his purpose. So do not be so holy that you are no earthly good. Some people do not love there pastors they use them and through them away and some people wont to be able to control them. They are broke so they would like there pastor to be broke it makes them fell better about themselves. So if God sends a person to be at a job and they are not getting paid anything they my not take the job. It is not about money. It is about appreciation. If a man tells his wife he love her and he never pays any bills and does nothing around the house. But he loves her God's provides for them. Love is an action word and if you love someone you wont the best for them. Not the least. Let start back honoring our pastor. I am a pastor, my wife have to share me with the world. Think about this if I live in a place were everyone has a Lexus there will be no complaints. But if a person comes an has a ford then they may say everyone has a Lexus, they think they are better thing us are something. If the pastor ask people to help him pay his bills because he does not get salary but he is going though the people will talk about him and most of the time not help him. But tell him we will pray for you God will provide.

[YaaKov and Hadassah Terry]

Mr. McClain writes:"Pastors go to school have to pay for there own tuition.

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And what did your Rabbi do???... He went to a yeshiva or Academy for a lifetime. ..and then went out and did Tikkun Olam! As all Jewish Rabbis try to do even to this day..
But you do not see them jumping around shouting foolish pablum to the sheep...

They actually study everything of G-d and all the Rabbinic theology and Hasidic teachings and all the received traditions (Qaballah) and the Zohar and the Tanya and on and on and on the list goes until they are filled to overflowing as a well of love to the people..and The Orthodox assures they are worthy to feed the people

Before they can teach others.
Not like the Xian church a few years of superficial study,... a degree of sorts,... then given a position of some demonation or they start another group,... Is that not so?
Deep Study is not so in the Christian circles.

The Blind showmen' lead the blind sheeple...they use a few picked out scriptures and incite the people to give for the flesh.. and false doctrines~ Yeshua would have spit out. the foolishness and Stated he did not come to take away from the torah But to fullfill it [ In your Bible Matis Yahu 5:v17ff]~That word translated in the Hebrew Idiom is to walk it out~~~..John Stated that to Abide in the teachings of Yeshua that you needed to Walk it out~First John2:v6~.at least Yeshua/J-sus was a Tzaddik, a Pious Jew- Rabbi~~before he went out to teach the Gentiles the Seven Noahide laws and to the Jew Torah~~IMO

[Hezekiah Ben Israel]

1Timothy 3:1-8 This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

Titus 1:6-11 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

1Peter 5:2-3 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock.

The Preacher is only suppose to use the tithes to further the church. He should have a separate job, and pay tithes himself to the Lord. Anyone who get's paid by the church, in my opinion does not have the best interests of the Church at heart unless it is to gain from the church.