How Much Does Your 'church' Pay?

[seekerman]

Originally Posted by deacon blues

Most pastors have to work a second job to make ends meet. I've worked side jobs throughout my ministry because my pay wasn't sufficient to provide for my family. Many pastors are never able to become a full time pastor. There have been more orphanages, drug rehab centers, homeless shelters, missionaries, hospitals, clinics, halfway houses, soup kitchens, clothes closets, disaster relief, church buildings, colleges, schools, utility help, food pantries, nursing homes, youth camps, preschools, pro life ministry, etc that have come to fruition through the so-called Romanist system than were ever birthed out of folks meeting in a living room in opposition to traditional worship facilities and paid ministers.

Question Seekerman (I think I already know the answer): do these house churches that you are familiar with teach/preach/practice tithing?

I can only answer for myself, I do tithe and give above and beyond the tithe. I don't know of anyone who doesn't give though, just not sure if they're tithing or not.

Concerning your having to work side jobs, that's your choice. You're expecting to be paid to minister but that's not scriptural, that's simply you following the romanist system and expecting romanist system benefits. Why not just work, make a living, and minister? Why do you think you have to be paid to minister? Of course folks can be full time pastors and minster, but the romanist system will tell folks that's not how it's supposed to work. How many pastors does a 'church' need? Why would you, or others, believe that there is one pastor per 'church' and that the entire 'church' is dependent on that one person? It's all part of the romanist mindset, it has nothing to do with the New Testament church.

Your condemnation of folks meeting in living rooms is condemning the very system the New Testament church enjoyed. If you wish to believe, in error, that folks who do not follow the romanist system do not give and support charitable causes, that's your choice. The giving in the New Testament church system isn't supporting man, nor building, nor man's religious system, with the leftover funds then dwindled out to charitable causes, but is instead one which maximizes the giving by placing it directly into the Kingdom of God. The romanist system, by it's very nature, cannot do this. The romanist system strips the giving to support the romanist system, which means the pastor and the building in the oneness pentecostal romanist system.

Of course there'll be rejection of the New Testament church by the romanists. Always has been, always will be.