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Once a pastor is paid a salary, that money is his to support his family and do with as he sees fit, just as your paycheck is yours once it is in your hands. If he wants to use part of his salary to join an organization or club that is his business, and there is nothing unethical about it. At least, not in reference to what money he is using to join. Now, if he takes money out of the church general fund, then it would be somewhat the business of the entire congregation. And of course, the church may have an interest in what organizations he belongs to. But it shouldn't have anything to do with paying dues out of HIS own pocket.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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