{"id":53792,"date":"2022-09-30T10:29:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53792"},"modified":"2022-11-02T01:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T06:19:32","slug":"advocating-for-your-own-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53792","title":{"rendered":"Advocating for Your Own Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">When is it appropriate for a pastor to advocate for changes in his own compensation? If a pastor is \u201cnot a lover of money\u201d (1\u202fTim.\u202f3:3), shouldn\u2019t he take whatever the church gives him without complaining? I believe a pastor should take an active role in making sure his pay package is adequate. But there are a few things to keep in mind when you (pastors) do this.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Be careful that you don\u2019t mislead your church as to how much you cost. Assume your church <span data-contrast=\"none\">wants <span data-contrast=\"none\">to see that you \u201clack nothing.\u201d Help them do their job! Imagine you\u2019re getting ready to pastor a church. You take the job even though the pay seems low. You think to yourself, \u201cI can make this work for now, and I\u2019m sure we can adjust things later.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">But you don\u2019t make that clear when you are hired. Now, three years in, you find you need to take a second job to make ends meet, and you resent the church for not taking better care of you (which may be a valid concern). But remember: you accepted the job without complaint\u2014and you\u2019re only now telling them that you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastors should be able to advocate for their own pay if necessary, but prayerfully and carefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-53792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-leadership","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53794,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53792\/revisions\/53794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}