The trusty google search for “highest median salary” yields the following result :
- Anesthesiologist – $292,000
- Physician/Ob-Gyn – $222,000
- Psychiatrist – $177,000
- Nurse Anesthetist – $157,000
- Sales Director – $140,000
- Actuary – $129,000
- Finance Director – $121,000
- Software Architect – $117,000
- Attorney – $115,000
- Insurance Broker – $114,000
Somewhere buried amongst that list should be preacher. Joel Osteen ($40 million), Eddie Long ($3 million), and the like are definitely skewing the average upward. Should a man’s who job description includes “spiritual healing” draw in millions?
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I sure as hell don’t think they deserve to be paid that given the services they provide, but if they’re smart enough to sucker people out of that kind of change, then who am I to stop them?
Obviously they fill the pews, so they must be spitting that goodness. I do not believe the Bible says anything against it, so why not. Isn’t that money tax free too?
But of course all of their money is not coming from the pews, these millionaires have book deals and other sources of income.
I think the money should be used to help the very people who need it since God has ordained them to preach, teach and aid the masses.
If people are willing to pay up under some notion that their tidings paying for the preachers new S-class makes them a better Christian, more power to the preacher for convincing them of this little pretense.
I don’t understand how an entity with the purpose that a church has pays one person several million dollars.
A lot of healing can be done with a cool million or 2.
LOL, supposedly ministers are “called by the lord.” Most of these guys don’t have any type of career before they mysteriously get a call to start preaching. I don’t believe that crap. I want to see someone making a 6+ figure salary get called to preach, start doing it at a small church and work on expanding it to where it can actually make millions of dollars.
If a minister can figure out how to monetize his message to the masses while not neglecting his own congregation, then I don’t have a problem with it. If he’s demanding this from the church that thats BS.
Hah, but I have a problem with churches that can seat more than a hundred people at a time. I think he’s short changing his congregation.
Sounds like I got shortchanged at college