Yeah, well, just hold on. There's no law that states a pastor or preacher or evangelist is supposed to be poor. Quite the opposite, as a matter of fact. I think there are those here who need to go do some homework on the issue (hint: the text is something called "The Bible"; well worth reading every now and then).
If you're of the school that equates poverty with piety, you're out of your mind.......as well as suffering from well and truly screwed up "theology".
Another hint: study tithing and its attendant results.
I have studied tithing, and since I am a Gentile Christian and not an Israelite living in Israel under the Law of Moses, the biblical tithe does not apply to me. A lot of pastors teach quite wrongly about tithing. I am expected to give to support my church, help fellow Christians, and support the preaching of the Gospel, and all of that might involve more than a 10% "tithe" every year.
The shallow theological preening is one thing; the willful contempt for what the Bible plainly says--spewed in ever-multiplying layers of self-serving distortions--is quite another.
That bracing mixture of spiritual arrogance mingled with Scriptural ignorance never fails to shock the genuine Christian: God is an ATM--a Santa Claus with a cash-box!--and if only you'll send your "offering" to this address! Visa & Mastercard accepted, of course...
A smarmy, non-Biblical business it is, from stem-to-stern, and spoken of in the Second Epistle of Timothy (1-5):
1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5having a form of godliness but denying its power
lovers of money...having a form of godliness but denying its power.
That's the essence of the "prosperity doctrine," in a nutshell.
And I, for one, am grateful to the Almighty that He's seen fit, no matter my other failings and shortcomings, to grant me passage through this life uninfected with a scummy speck of it.