Jesus Christ vs the Evangelical Tithe

JESUS CHRIST vs the Evangelical Tithe?

# 6: Let’s talk salary. Why? Because most of the money redirected from Christ’s Great Commission is used to finance salaries.

Because so much money is spent on salaries (salaries consume most  of the congregation’s donations), one might assume the New Testament would have many references (citations, quotations) that validate the salary.

Evangelical, do your own investigation! Simply search your Bible for the word “salary”. The word simply cannot be found, not in the entire Bible, not in any translation. It’s not there because God didn’t put there…. because He doesn’t want it there…. because the salary is contrary to His will and His ways.

It’s easy to conclude that Jesus must hate the pastor’s salary. Do you remember His reprimand to the money-hungry pharisees who were “making the word of God of no effect through [their] tradition”? (Matthew 15) Doesn’t the salary equally make “the word of God” – regarding His Great Commission – “of no effect”?

Jesus lived by contributions. The twelve and the seventy lived by contributions. Paul lived by contributions. Jesus taught that contributions were to cover “eating and drinking”, not vacations, a hefty mortgage, and other non-essentials.