If you can afford, as pastor of a church, to tithe 90 percent of your income to the church, you are making way too much, IMHO.
There are also some clever tricks that can be used to deal with this. Donate 90 percent of your income to the church, then the church gives you things you would not normally get ie, pays for your house, pays for transportation, pays for your clothing, pays for your travel expenses, pays for a whole lotta the “perks” that the other churches make their pastors pay for. IMHO, its a way to live even MORE extravagantly than the 10 percenters.
I trust no one in charge of a mega church. No good happens in a stadium (think circuses,professional sports,benny hinn, concerts, and political bs).
“If you can afford, as pastor of a church, to tithe 90 percent of your income to the church, you are making way too much, IMHO.”
I suspect this comes from book royalties and not salary...
He lives comfortably on his book royalties and speaking fees.
>> I trust no one in charge of a mega church.
I would direct your attention to Dr. Edwin Young of Second Baptist Church in Houston (the second largest church in the country ... 5 campuses, 50K members). He would state that you shouldn’t trust him, you should trust God’s word ... read for yourself.
He is a genuinely good man, and devout conservative Christian. He’s not afraid of edgy or secularly controversial sermons. He frequently mentions in his sermons the fact that abortion is the single greatest issue leading to America’s moral problems. He took a shot at Nancy Pelosi in last weeks sermon (as he read a Christmas list from his granddaughter which included a request for $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (there were 61 zeroes) ... and called her the next Pelosi).
Though he does not take side with any political party from the pulpit he is a red-blooded patriotic American conservative.
SnakeDoc
“If you can afford, as pastor of a church, to tithe 90 percent of your income to the church, you are making way too much, IMHO.”
Hold on, you sound like the democrats complaining about CEO pay...NONE of their, or our, buisness what people make....you have to keep in mind that MOST of his income has been coming from book sales, not his church salary.
Doesn’t sounds to me as if your opinion is very humble. I am no follower of Rick Warren, and have opposed the introduction of his Purpose Driven curricula in a church I was a member of, even refusing to participate in the activities of the time.
However, I’d also like to know what Rick Warren should do with his personal money? He makes a lot of money from his book sales, his speaking engagements and other ventures of which he is a part.
I trust no one who doesn’t trust someone in charge of a mega-church. A lot of these pastors have done some bad things. But a lot of them have done some very good things. I just don’t happen to think that Rick Warren is someone who’s done a lot of good. I think his preaching is poor and without spiritual merit. But is is the spiritual authority at Saddleback, and I’m not going to criticize him for what he does there, or the fact that he puts his money where his mouth is.
Now, I’d also like to know if your criticism is based on your personal animosity toward Christians and Rick Warren, or whether your criticism on an honest appraisial of what he is doing. In other words, is your opinion based on your own personal worship experiences and a membership in a local church? Or are you just taking potshots?
Right, and we are supposed to give alms anonymously, not brag about it from the housetops.