Q&A SERIES Q: WHY TELEVANGELISTS SAY THEY DESERVE THEIR SIX-FIGURE SALARIES, PLUS OTHER BENEFITS, ALLOWANCES, AND PERKS? A: Because they believe its what the Scriptures say. They should be considered worthy of receiving double pay, especially those who work hard at prewaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, Do not muzzle an ox when you are using it to thresh grain and workers should be given their pay. ( 1 Tim. 5:17-18 TEV). But Paul does not stop here. If we continue reading, we find this additional instructions: You must teach and preach these things. Whoever teaches a different doctrine and does not argue with the true words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the teaching of our religion is swollen with pride and knows nothing. He has an unhealthy desire to argue and quarrel about words, and this brings on jealousy, disputes, insults, evil suspicions, and constant arguments from people whose minds do not function and who no longer have the truth. THEY THINK THAT RELIGION IS A WAY TO BECOME RICH (emphasis mine-jnr). Well, religion does make us very rich, if we are satisfied with what we have.... Those who want to to get rich fall into temptation and are caught in the trap of many foolish and harmful desires, which pull them down to ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil. Some have been so eager to have it that they have wandered away from the faith and have broken their hearts with many sorrows. (1 Tim. 6:3-10 TEV)
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:02:31 +0000
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