Why do pastors need a salary?

Well dear, those fancy SUV are expensive, so are the mansions with swimming pools. If you add the extra cost of male hookers and meth crystals used by Ted Haggard and his followers to spread the gospel you see that all this can add up to a lot of money...

I personally don't think pastor's should be paid $700,000 a year.

I think a pastor should have a job like everyone else, and then be

paid just a nominal amount from the church. Especially, if the

church provides him and his family a home as well. We are a small

country church and we pay our pastor a small amount, don't have a

home to provide him and he has a job to support himself. We spend

our money on sending missionaries, helping people in the community,

groceries, medicine,and whatever the need is. When a church has

a huge bank account,just sitting on the money, something is wrong

in my humble opinion. May God bless you all.

Any pastor making $700,000 a year should step down from his position before God strikes him down. That's wrong, greedy, and an abuse of power... I hope you know that already.

My pastor lives off of about $40,000 a year, and he has a family of eight. Oh, and none of that money comes from what the congregation gives to the church. He raises it separately, on his own.

Any money we give the church goes straight to ministry and to serving the poor, both in our community and around the world.

I love my church. :)

I don't know what church you go to, but my pastor definatly doesn't make $700,000 a year. However, even pastors need money for food and clothing.

Tithing was removed....

A few years after the resurrection of Jesus, uncircumcised non-Jews were converted to Christianity. “It is necessary to circumcise them and charge them to observe the law of Moses,” some Jewish Christians contended. (Acts 15:5) Others did not agree. So Jesus’ apostles and other experienced Christians met in Jerusalem to discuss the issue. They wanted to discern God’s will. Did he require Christ’s followers to keep the Law of Moses, which included tithing? Experiences were related showing a change in God’s dealings with non-Jews, and this was verified from God’s own prophetic Word. (Acts 15:6-21) What was the decision?

The meeting came to a unanimous conclusion. Christians were not to be burdened with the Law of Moses. There were, though, a few “necessary things” that must be obeyed. Was tithing one? The inspired decision read: “The holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication.” (Acts 15:25, 28, 29) Interestingly, God’s law on tithing was not listed among the “necessary things” for Christians

Religion is a profitable business preying on the gullible.

Gotta pay the bills, son. That's why.