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Originally Posted by FlamingZword
When you need to be baptized, married or buried I hope your preacher does not have to excuse himself by saying sorry, but since I have to go work at McDonalds to support my family, I will simply throw a glass of water upon you, I will tweet you the wedding ceremony, or I will text you a few words to your funeral.
Jesus could have turned stones into bread, yet there were plenty of people who gave him and the Apostles of their substance.
Go and enjoy your meal at McDonalds where a poor preacher is probably flipping the burgers you will eat since, he has to supplement his income because the miserly, stingy, God robbing anti-tithe crowd do not want to pay him for all his efforts.
Go ahead and muzzle your ox till he starves.
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I'm a bi vocational pastor. And it is hard. Ministry is hard. But I do it because I minister to meet peoples needs not for them to meet mine. Are there times I wish I was a f/t salaried pastor? I'm not going to lie, yes there are. But overall I am glad that I have never been a financial burden to any church. I have always preached free, and I believe God has blessed me abundantly. I have very nice temporal things and live well. And I'm not offended that I have to work.
I dont preach or pastor because I need a job. I do it because I want to see people saved.
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"Resolved: That all men should live to the glory of God. Resolved, secondly: That whether or not anyone else does, I will." ~Jonathan Edwards
"The only man who has the right to say he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ." ~Dietrich Bonheoffer, The Cost of Discipleship
"Preachers who should be fishing for men are now too often fishing for compliments from men." ~Leonard Ravenhill
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