REVEREND'S $600k SALARY CAUSES CHURCH OUTRAGE

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Craig Amos Graphic Designer & Publisher at Amos & Grant Advertising Design Church folk are weird. "Bring all ye tithes and offerings in the store house so we can all live like rock stars and laugh all the way to the bank." "Thank you dearly and may God bless you chillun, and remember: Jaysus loves you!" Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 at 8:03PM

Craig Amos Graphic Designer & Publisher at Amos & Grant Advertising Design Come to think of it, I need a gig like that! Anyone else needing to hook a brotha, ehhhrrr, needing to install a senior pastor anytime soon? I'll be your trusting and faithful servant. (For that kind of money, hell yeah I will be!) Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 at 8:06PM

Jen Fad Nurse at Healthcare ...Come to think of it, I need a gig like that!... needing to install a senior pastor ... I'm with you on this Brother Craig...that's the best gig going right now!! (((Lol))) Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 at 8:11PM

Jen Fad Nurse at Healthcare I'm sorry, but I have to agree to disagree with you guys on this one... Come on guys, I'm open minded but this is a ridiculous salary for a pastor. Suchs the Pope ( The Overseer of the entire Roman Catholic Church) does not receive any pay, nor does he have a bank account. Thursday, April 23rd 2009 at 11:20PM

Jen Fad Nurse at Healthcare ...Also the people that run the church vote on things... The churches that I have attended, the board was made up of the pastor's family who would directly benefit for voting on a large salary for the pastor. (((Lol))) Thursday, April 23rd 2009 at 11:32PM

Dee Gray Provisioner at Cannot Say Not in a recession or booming economy is this acceptable. It breathes the poisonous temptation that ministry is about the money. I'm not saying the man and his family should be broke, but paying for private school for his KID? That should be something HE does. And $11,500 per MONTH for housing? Where will his family be living for that kind of money. And on top of THAT, an "equity allowance" so he can SAVE to BUY a house? You mean to tell me he can't BUY a house with an $11,500 per/month housing allowance? It would have to be one of the other. Or better yet, the salary, the pension and insurance benefits. Everything else should be paid for out of his salary, which I think is tax-free, by the way. And on top of that, I'm pretty sure there are all kinds of personal tax deductions to include his clothing purchase, meal purchases (on behalf of church business), etc. I think it says more to me that he accepted all of this package than that the church board offered it. Blessings... Friday, April 24th 2009 at 5:24PM

Siebra Muhammad A Registration Clerk/Specialist at New Orleans Public Schools Yea Yea!!! Saturday, April 25th 2009 at 11:06AM

Dee Gray Provisioner at Cannot Say Mr. Maxwell, I practically pick cotton every day and I'm pretty certain I'm worth more. And I'm sorry...that has nothing to do with sin. It's not sin to be compensated commisserate with education and experience. And it's not sin if someone chooses to pay someone else an exhorbitant amount of money. I just don't think it's fiscally prudent to pay a man that kind of money AND pay for HIS child's education. That's his job and if I was a member of that church, I'd probably ask sarcastically, "Where's the money for MY child's education?" Of course, the answer would probably be, "When you become the pastor, it'll come from this church!" LOL. I disagree with it, but it's just one woman's opinion. I do think though that this beckons a common comment I've heard when people find out that a pastor has been padded this way: "Dang, I'm in the wrong line of work." My point? Situations like this make ministry look like a for-profit organization...like a publicly traded corporation. Again, just one woman's opinion. And you know what they say about opinions... ;-) Blessings... Sunday, April 26th 2009 at 3:28AM

Dee Gray Provisioner at Cannot Say Aw, that's so sweet. ;-) (blushing) I see your points. The board did vote for it. I'm glad I'm not a member of that church. I'd had to find another church home. I was a member of a church once that was in a perfectly sized, perfectly good building. The co-pastors (husband and wife) decided that the church should move to a more swanky location with a lot more stuff (big screens, surround sound, expensive and keeping up with church Joneses type thing). I'll admit, the new edifice WAS beautiful and quite inviting, but I had to give my membership a switft benediction when they started insisting that on top of tithes and offerings, all members needed to give an additional $25 per WEEK to pay for that building. This is all while saying that GOD blessed the church with it. I don't know about others, but I am of the mind that God does not bless you with something and not likewise bless you with the means to pay for it. It wasn't like they were asking. They were insisting and then would add to it when not enough people did it by saying something like, "God blessed all of us with this, People. It's just $25." That burned me up. When one is driving a Benz and the other a souped up Cadi and they live in a mansion on the other side of town, they can say "It's just $25." And to shroud it in, "GOD is not worth $25 more, People?" is just way over the top and right down sinful. They were trying to GUILT members into giving in addition to tithes and offerings. I was a single mother at the time and though I had a good job, I wasn't using my overflow to pay for a building they purchased just for show. And I think what really got to me was the fact that THEY had the means to pay for the building. And to ask me, a single mother among many others, to give an additional $100 per month (sometimes $125) on top of what I already faithfully gave was bold and inconsiderate. The preaching was off the chain though. But I reached a point where I couldn't hear what they were saying for seeing what they were doing. Blessings... Sunday, April 26th 2009 at 4:38PM

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