Fulltime Service

 December  9  - Fulltime service - 1 Cor 9:14

 

     This is such a truthful statement made by Paul this morning.  A workman in the field of full time service should get paid for the work they do.  A person, one time ask me how much a minister should make.  I simply replied that they should make as much as the average parishioner does.  Some churches have this concept that the Lord will keep the preacher humble and they will keep them poor.

    Today it is much better for the minister than it was.  Most churches treat their pastors well.  Yet there are a few that still think that the preacher should have very little.  I knew a church in a western province that could easily afford to pay their pastor a decent living allowance, yet they refused too.  The pastor was forced to go out and work.  They began to complain that nothing was happening for them spiritually.  The answer was quite simple they were too tight with their money.  They were robbing God and His representative in that church.  When they began to pay the pastor a decent living allowance, he was free to study, visit and do some evangelistic work and the church grew.  Today remember to free your minister by giving him not only better support financially, but also in time, ability and resources.