Pastors Should Volunteer Their Services With No Compensation Required

[Jehoram]

I don't think pastors should be paid at all. They should work 40 hours at their secular job, 40 hours at the church per week, be available at all hours, and have their sermon notes approved by the church board before every service.

I also believe their children and spouse should appear before a review panel every Sunday afternoon so that the church can judge how well behaved they are. Further, the pastor should only be allowed to preach from John 3:16 and 1 Corinthians 13.

[Sheltiedad]

Why not, my dad has been doing it for years...

[Jehoram]

All of the tithe and offerings should go to fund the praise dance team, the Super Bowl party, the ladies tea, and the men's softball league.

[Jehoram]

Why not, my dad has been doing it for years...

Praise Him.

[Michlow]

I will go one step further and get rid of pastors all together :D

[Pragmatist]

I don't think pastors should be paid at all. They should work 40 hours at their secular job, 40 hours at the church per week, be available at all hours, and have their sermon notes approved by the church board before every service.

I also believe their children and spouse should appear before a review panel every Sunday afternoon so that the church can judge how well behaved they are. Further, the pastor should only be allowed to preach from John 3:16 and 1 Corinthians 13.

Um, is this because I don't think any pastor needs $8 million to live for a year?

Think balance. :)

[Jehoram]

Maybe you shouldn't make 10K a year? Who do you really think you are anyway? It's none of your business. If that church is happy to give him 8 million, big whoop!

[Rico]

I will go one step further and get rid of pastors all together :D

You would! LOL!

[Michlow]

You would! LOL!

I know! I couldn't resist! :slaphappy

[Pragmatist]

Maybe you shouldn't make 10K a year? Who do you really think you are anyway? It's none of your business. If that church is happy to give him 8 million, big whoop!

If the church is happy to, more power to them. I personally would spread my funds out to many ministries.

[Steve Epley]

I don't think pastors should be paid at all. They should work 40 hours at their secular job, 40 hours at the church per week, be available at all hours, and have their sermon notes approved by the church board before every service.

I also believe their children and spouse should appear before a review panel every Sunday afternoon so that the church can judge how well behaved they are. Further, the pastor should only be allowed to preach from John 3:16 and 1 Corinthians 13.

Amen.

[Jehoram]

If the church is happy to, more power to them. I personally would spread my funds out to many ministries.


Praise you!

[Rico]

If the church is happy to, more power to them. I personally would spread my funds out to many ministries.

To be honest, if I was paying an $8 million tithe I doubt I would give it all to just one church. Think of all the small struggling churches that could use their mortgage payments taken care of for a year. Or other ministries that could use some funding, like maybe starting a few clothes closets or food programs. That's where I think church money should be going anyway, instead of building gyms and bigger and bigger churches.

[Jehoram]

To be honest, if I was paying an $8 million tithe I doubt I would give it all to just one church. Think of all the small struggling churches that could use their mortgage payments taken care of for a year. Or other ministries that could use some funding, like maybe starting a few clothes closets or food programs. That's where I think church money should be going anyway, instead of building gyms and bigger and bigger churches.

I thought we had decided that small churches are small because God did not love them? Oh, and because their pastors were losers and all the normal AFF junk. Why give to a small church?

[Pragmatist]

I thought we had decided that small churches are small because God did not love them? Oh, and because their pastors were losers and all the normal AFF junk. Why give to a small church?

A few on here don't care for small churches, but that's not the majority opinion by a long shot.

[Rico]

I thought we had decided that small churches are small because God did not love them? Oh, and because their pastors were losers and all the normal AFF junk. Why give to a small church?

Why not give to a smaller church? Does it have to be so big to deserve getting any money?

[Jehoram]

Why not give to a smaller church? Does it have to be so big to deserve getting any money?


Yes. I mean don't you measure the favor of God by how big a church is? God must not love those churches who only have a hundred or less. Why give to something that is not prosperous?

[Ronzo]

Gimme a break, AE...

[Pressing-On]

Luke 10:7 " And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire."

ergatēs
er-gat'-ace
From G2041; a toiler; figuratively a teacher: - labourer, worker (-men).

[Sister Alvear]

Luke 10:7 " And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire."

ergatēs
er-gat'-ace
From G2041; a toiler; figuratively a teacher: - labourer, worker (-men).


What about women? ha...

[Straightline]

What about women? ha...

She would be a Labour-ette :killinme


Heading to the bank with my 8 mil in a
Straightline

[Sister Alvear]

send it to a labor-ette....ha..

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

She would be a Labour-ette :killinme


Heading to the bank with my 8 mil in a
Straightline

And she would then preach a sermon-ette to Christian-ettes!
:igotit

[Esther]

And she would then preach a sermon-ette to Christian-ettes!
:igotit

etts the way it is. :)

[Pressing-On]

What about women? ha...
Is laborer male gendered? You could be in trouble. You then must work for free.

:killinme

[Pressing-On]

Thought this was good from J-Roc on the "Show Me the Money" thread.

http://www.apostolicfriendsforum.com/showpost.php?p=179449&postcount=98

[stmatthew]

And she would then preach a sermon-ette to Christian-ettes!
:igotit

While smoking a cigarette??? :killinme

[Pressing-On]

While smoking a cigarette??? :killinme

Gazing at a brunette?

[Jehoram]

In a corvette.

[Pressing-On]

Driving as though upset...

[Jehoram]

While playing a marionette.

[Pressing-On]

Showing off for Jeannette..

[Jehoram]

Going down a street named Roulette.

[Rico]

This thread is all wet.

[Rhoni]

I don't think pastors should be paid at all. They should work 40 hours at their secular job, 40 hours at the church per week, be available at all hours, and have their sermon notes approved by the church board before every service.

I also believe their children and spouse should appear before a review panel every Sunday afternoon so that the church can judge how well behaved they are. Further, the pastor should only be allowed to preach from John 3:16 and 1 Corinthians 13.

I do think there should be more accountability for Pastors everywhere. They should be paid and a list of responsibilities should be itemized:
The new age Pastors run their churches very different from those of the past:
* a saint has to make an appt with the church admin/or sect to get an appt. and if they don't show up it is fine, if you don't show up then you are rude.
* in order to do anything/get approval one has to go through a chain of authority from the bottom to the top so that if the plans fall through then there is someone other than leadership to blame it on.
* for security and insurance purposes, or because a VIP things you should...all members should go through a new converts class/membership class and be accepted into fellowship regardless of whether they have been in the church, ministry, or paid their tithes all their life.
* Pastors do not counsel others in their congregation if their tithes are not paid up in full with doc. proof.
* The prosperity message is preached every offering time.
* The first thing to go out the door if remodeling is the kitchen and dining area because we have forgotten that our churches were built on the blood sweat and tears over hot peanut brittle, and working women who built the church.

Just Venting...:choir

Blessings, Rhoni

[tbpew]

I don't think pastors should be paid at all. They should work 40 hours at their secular job, 40 hours at the church per week, be available at all hours, and have their sermon notes approved by the church board before every service.

I also believe their children and spouse should appear before a review panel every Sunday afternoon so that the church can judge how well behaved they are. Further, the pastor should only be allowed to preach from John 3:16 and 1 Corinthians 13.

wow. This is really food for thought. Thank you "Altered one" for helping alter all of our thinking.

[Pressing-On]

This thread is all wet.

Right about at sunset.

[toof]

And eating a turnip.

[Jehoram]

I don't think pastors should be paid at all. They should work 40 hours at their secular job, 40 hours at the church per week, be available at all hours, and have their sermon notes approved by the church board before every service.

I also believe their children and spouse should appear before a review panel every Sunday afternoon so that the church can judge how well behaved they are. Further, the pastor should only be allowed to preach from John 3:16 and 1 Corinthians 13.

All of the tithe and offerings should go to fund the praise dance team, the Super Bowl party, the ladies tea, and the men's softball league.

Yes. I mean don't you measure the favor of God by how big a church is? God must not love those churches who only have a hundred or less. Why give to something that is not prosperous?

Bump

[Hoovie]

"They should work 40 hours at their secular job, 40 hours at the church per week, be available at all hours"

Ridiculous. I see no reason to make it difficult for pastors - they are every bit as deserving as the other saints.

[JaneEyre]

How can a pastor work 40 hours per week at a secular job and 40 hours a week at church???....Some people want superheroes and are disappointed to learn that the pastor and his family are mere mortals.

[*AQuietPlace*]

This thread had me ROLLING! That was fun! Jeannette in a vette. :ursofunny

[tbpew]

Is today "National bump an old thread" day?

[JaneEyre]

Is today "National bump an old thread" day?

YES!!!....Must be.