Sentences with phrase «paid as pastor»

I deal with the double honor passage and a few others, and talk about some of the pitfalls of getting paid as a pastor.

At the time, I didn't think I could pastor unless I was getting paid as pastor.

Not exact matches

I was eventually laid - off to due to «lack of funds» (which I have in writing) it seemed as though people in our congregation began fleeing contemporary church and we couldn't pay me and the Lead Pastor (who sat in his office day in, day out)... I won't settle for another stagnant «building - pastor» gig, I prPastor (who sat in his office day in, day out)... I won't settle for another stagnant «building - pastor» gig, I prpastor» gig, I promise.

Same goes for the tiny - pope syndrome, and contempt for pastors who don't get paid as being «not good enough to get a paid position.»

But, I have a big kicker for you, I am a Pastor and have been pastoring for six years, I'm also 4th generation owner of a business that has allowed me to pay for all of the ministry and pay for staff as well.

What would you do if they came to you and said,» We want you to keep paying all our bills, but we want a different man as our pastor»?

If a group of believers wants to own a building and pay a pastor, this isn't necessarily sinful, as long as they make these of secondary importance.

Some students had offered to have their Wesley Foundation serve as a kind of collective pastor to a church that could no longer afford to pay a preacher and was slated to close.

As a pastor who gets «paid» for ministry, I don't disagree with your conclusion.

If you have a Church building then ask the pastor to open it to the homeless as its really Gods building since he paid for it.

The point is this, if you are being paid as a preacher / pastor or any other service you offer to the church then I would urge you to escape from it and step into the unknown.

Me thinks I hit a nerve on komrade Rationalintn By the way komrade I pay taxes as do every Christian that I know... including Christian pastors.

A relatively few daring souls, such as Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, said they were wrong, and paid with their lives.

If a pastor quotes 1 Corinthians 9:14 as a way to demand that the people he minister to should pay his salary, he is using 1 Corinthians 9:14 in exactly the opposite way that Paul was using it.

The LDS Church does not have paid clergy, and this is one way that volunteer ward pastors, or the bishops, can make sure members get personal attention and lessons as needed.

Our church attendance has been WAY down; the pastor is officially «retired,» so no longer being paid — but IS listed as a member of one of the «teams» which still bear the name of the church they left.

Arguably, perhaps, as little business as many churches have paying a pastor, they have less reason to take on a mortgage.

I pay my counselor a lot of money to meet at pre-scheduled times — but as a pastor I've dropped everything, many times, to help out someone in our community and often I buy the coffee.

Perhaps the reason we have to stretch to come up with Scriptures that support paying a pastor is because the concept of pastor as we know it did not exist in the first century, and the concept of paying elders was absent.

Well again, some have argued that if «honor» in 1 Timothy 5:3 means paying widows enough to live on, «double honor» in 5:17 means paying pastors twice as much.

Secondly, Paul made it very clear to young Timothy, who was an elder / pastor who was directing the church affairs well, and so was worthy of double honour, that is, honour and respect, as well as being paid wages, which he so clearly pointed out in the context.

For example, although many churches can afford a paid, full - time lead pastor, those same churches can not afford the supporting full - time staff such as worship leaders, children's and youth pastors, and the pastor must work to supplement his salary.

When Christianity became a business, and you get a degree in order to have that particular job is where these verses needed to misconstrued so that «pastors» as worldly job could get paid.

As to why have paid pastors, I believe in the pastorate and feel there is value in it.

Maybe not for every pastor who is out there, as many are not getting paid very well at all, but there are many more who are living quite well, and are using misused and abused passages from Scripture to justify their lifestyle, and to guilt more and more needy people into giving sacrificially from their income.

I realize I don't look like it, being a paid pastor of a church with a building which is part of a denomination which is recognized as being within Christendom.

However, women have served as pastors in Vermont churches partly because many of those churches are small, rural and low - paying.

They have the same pay scale as male pastors and can function in almost every way the male pastor can.

As fans and critics wait to see what Rob Bell does next after leaving Mars Hill Bible Church last October in the wake of all the hubbub over Love Wins, his website gives a fresh glimpse of what the pastor and author is up to now: offering fellow pastors (and others) the chance to pay $ 500 to pick his brain.

A church that is registered as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization risks loosing it's non-profit status (translated: have to pay corporate taxes) if it's pastor preaches about ANY political issues / topics from the pulpit.

In what appears to be a response to Pastor Mensah Otabil's assertion that he does not pay attention to local media content due to excessive political discussions, and instead chooses to watch animals on Television, former President John Dramani Mahama, has described that posture as hypocritical.

The Daily News pays homage to Ralph Farrait, or «Pastor Ralph,» as he was known on the Bronx boxing scene.

The U-Haul truck opens its sliding door for the first time since Adeline, Kentucky, unleashing the stale air from the small southern town that used to be Grace Salter's home, back when her mother was still a dutiful Baptist church leader (though not technically a «pastor,» because as a woman in a church belonging to the Southern Baptist Convention, she could not technically claim the official title, nor its significantly higher pay grade, even with her PhD in Ministry and more than a decade of service).

However, this moral and legal obligation to pay just debts must be balanced by such considerations as the need for compassion and the call to cancel debts at reasonable intervals.Your pastor or minister may advise you on the interpretation of Scriptural passages and how they apply to Bankruptcy.

The court found that it was the borrower's choice to work as a pastor for a start - up church rather than try to find a higher paying job.

The sheriff avoided the media at a prayer service Thursday that was held in his honor at a Pompano church run by BSO associate chaplain John Mohorn, a pastor whom Israel put on the BSO payroll and who as of last year was being paid $ 68,000 a year in taxpayers» money.