Too often pastors neglect to disciple the saints on how to think about money with a biblical perspective. I trust that’s an uncontroversial statement.
Pastor, do your people know how to answer difficult questions like these:
How should Christians think about making money? Should they approach saving money differently than non-Christians? What principles come into play as they spend and invest money? How can they receive money as a blessing? How can they beware that money is also sometimes a curse? How can believers worship God through financial self-denial? How can they worship God by enjoying what God has given them?
If faithful Christians who attend church week after week remain in the dark about the answers to questions like these, it shouldn’t surprise us that many churches don’t know how and why they should pay their pastor. In this brief article, I will ask three questions in order to discuss three unbiblical approaches I’ve seen to paying pastors.
1. What if I want to serve vocationally in the ministry without taking a salary?
As a paid minister of God’s Word, I feel some level of awkwardness surrounding this topic. After all, there’s at least one place in
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