Ok, fine.
The Southern Baptists don't call it "hiring", but they do often also (or at least used to) supply a residence for whomever it was who was called, and that man's wife & children, if any.
Can you step away from all the rest which followed long enough to see not only what I was saying, but to then compare things --- as compared to Scripture also?
“Can you step away from all the rest which followed long enough to see not only what I was saying, but to then compare things -— as compared to Scripture also?”
I thought I did. I suppose all I can add is that we do things the way we have always and everywhere done things. Your ecclesiology is different. In all honesty what you do makes no difference to me. It’s not my place to tell Baptists how to run their communities.
Orthodoxy is here in the West to be seen if people want to look. If people come and don’t like what they see, we tell them that’s fine and offer them another piece of baklava.
Otherwise, my answer is what xzins said.