[sparklite2]

If they don’t take tithes, how do they pay the minister?
Do they meet in someone’s home?

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

We do - we attend a home church.

[MayflowerMadam]

“If they don’t take tithes, how do they pay the minister?”

Maybe they don’t have a portion of the service where they pass he offering plate, but receive offering without the production. My uncle’s church had offering boxes that only members and regular attendees were aware of and that’s where they deposited their tithes and offerings.

As my dad announced when he noticed visitors in a service and it was time for the offering, it’s the “job” of members and regular attendees to support the church financially. If you are visiting, we do not want or expect you to give. (Some did, anyhow.)

[ravenwolf]

If they don’t take tithes, how do they pay the minister?

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John 10
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. 12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. 13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep

The hireling will look for a Church where he can earn more money, paid preachers are the wolves.

I know a lot of preachers who hold down jobs just like every one else because they understand that they are not to get paid for spreading the gospel.