If preachers didnt get paid, do you think many would still preach? (doctrine, believe)

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by jimmiej

Don't confuse televangelists with the local pastor/priest.

Neither are televangelists.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by Dave_n_Tenn

Equal opportunity does not guarantee equal results.

Very true.

However focus on the opportunity is a problem, rather than a focus on teaching. You received free give free. Mind you scripturally there is nothing wrong with giving monetary gifts to a teacher/preacher. Obligating the congregation through a demanded tithe is a different story. A gift fits, a salary doesn't.

[Horn of ‘83]

Originally Posted by jimmiej

Don't confuse televangelists with the local pastor/priest.

Originally Posted by expatCA

Neither are televangelists.

[Dave_n_Tenn]

Originally Posted by expatCA

Very true.

However focus on the opportunity is a problem, rather than a focus on teaching. You received free give free. Mind you scripturally there is nothing wrong with giving monetary gifts to a teacher/preacher. Obligating the congregation through a demanded tithe is a different story. A gift fits, a salary doesn't.

You just took the topic to your agenda. You have to let go of resentment...

[Huckleberry3911948]

not a chance. its one of the many businesses that get their money shaming people. interesting enough, it is the birthplace of the civil rights movement.

[thrillobyte]

Ordinary run-of-the-mill preachers would.

Televangelists are in it solely for the $$$'s.

[MORebelWoman]

Originally Posted by DewDropInn

Yes. The Amish have flourished for over 200 years in this country doing just that. The LDS do it as well.

There are many churches out there where the pastors don't get paid.

[Heartsong]

Originally Posted by Jerwade

If preachers didn't get paid, do you think many would still preach?

Claiming the status of being called to preach is an excuse not to work.
But to answer the question, very few would survive without compensation.

Great answer, Jerwade.

[Heartsong]

Originally Posted by LuminousTruth

No, of course not, and a lot of people wouldn't be Christians if they didn't expect easy, cheap immortality from it. Not many churches would run if they had to pay property taxes like everyone else.

So true. I predict that churches are going to lose their tax exempt status which will put them to the test.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by jimmiej

Neither of the pastors I mentioned are televangelists. One is pastor at a large Church in CA and the other of a small church in NC. Both have expensive homes away from their modest ones near the church.