Pay Your Preachers ~ Pay Your Taxes.

There are some who would have folks think that paying a pastor for shepherding the flock is a sin.  However, the Word of God is clear in this matter as well as paying taxes to the Government.  Elder Leland speaks to these issues . . .

The Baptists believe that those who preach the gospel should live of it:  that a preacher is as much entitled to a reward for his labor, as the reaper in the field is to his hire.  It is a gross innovation from truth, to view the wages of a minister in the light of alms.  That religion that opens the heart, unties the purse-strings.  When souls are caught in the net of the gospel (like the fish that Peter caught) they have a piece of money in their mouths.  If people will not give the preacher his due, they and their money must perish together.

Finally, the Baptists hold it their duty to obey magistrates, to be subject to the law of the land, to pay their taxes, and pray for all in authority.  They are not scrupulous of taking an oath of God upon them to testify the truth before a magistrate or court; but reject profane swearing.  Their religion also allows them to bear arms in defence of their life, liberty and property, and also to be friendly to those who differ with them in judgment, believing a cynick to be as bad as a sycophant.

God speaks about paying preachers:


God speaks about paying taxes:  
