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Post date: Jun 1, 2015 4:09:28 AM
Guys, if you feel God called you to the ministry that is wonderful. If you think you can demand a market related salary form your brethren and have the right to put them back under the law and curse of Moses you are very much deceived.
Market related salary for an apostle is 40 lashes minus 1, and for a Messiah Crucifixion.
As for the preachers who do so sacrificially, with food and clothing be content.
I suspect that in all sincerity and much ignorance, you do not understand what a big mistake clericalism is.
The singular professional pastor is simply not what Jesus or Paul did.
The calling to minister is going to be more expensive that you thought.
We must equip the saints without the convenience or fame, title and salary acknowledgement or grand infrastructure like the Vatican.
It is only possible by the Holy Spirit and a return to the Biblical mandate..
Sela
PS: The order and convenience of modern institutional church is simply not a good platform for the working of the Spirit though the whole body.
1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?
2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
4 Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?
5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?—
6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.”
9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.”
12 Yet the law is not of faith, but “the man who does them shall live by them.”
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”),
14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15 Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.
Galatians 3:1-15
6 Now godliness with contentment is great gain.
7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8 And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.
9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:6-10
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