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Dear Pilgrim, Hear what this preacher said in 1997: "Gospel music ministers have agents who pimp them to the highest bidder" This was 28 years ago! If we keep trying to be politically correct, the lines will keep getting blurred until there are no lines. Sadly, we will leave battles we should have fought and won for our children. This is the story of 2025. If when asked if a Christian minister should have sex before marriage, or if a Christian minister should serve with integrity, we can answer yes or no. Why is it so hard for ALL of us Christians to agree on the Biblical standard for charging money in ministry? Why is it that matters of money have become such a big snare in the body? Why can't we just look at the Bible and do as it recommends? Why do matters of Babylon's gold always have to be stylishly evaded as matters of personal consecration? A church invites you to minister. This church will take care of transportation, accommodation, and feeding for you (and your team if applicable), and you feel it's right, in addition, to DEMAND a specific fee for ministry to them? How can we be arguing this for God's sake? How can you be demanding how much you must be given or paid? Is it no longer ministry? Then somebody says, "If they can not pay, they should forget I will go where they can pay." So how much money a church can pay now becomes part of the indices for determining which invite to accept. How sad!!! Whether music minister or preacher, anyone demanding a specific fee for ministry is a hireling. We shouldn't be politicizing these things. The person is "stealing" by trick. The church should honour and be a blessing to a minister financially. That's scriptural. However, it's not in the place of the minister to demand how much that honour should be. This should be very simple for us to agree on as Christians. Yes! Some churches abuse people in the name of ministry. I have been through it, Nathaniel Bassey has been through it. Many on CT have been through it. Any true minister has been through this before, and if you haven't, you will go through it. You won't be the first nor the last. It's part of the way God ensures that your heart in His service is in the right place. Some men will treat you poorly and despitefully use you, "in the name of God." However, this will never be a good enough reason to charge a fee for ministry. If your heart turns to begin to charge because of this, you were never in the service of Jesus. You were and are in ministry for your belly. Jesus didn't do it. When He sent His disciples out, He asked them not to do it. We shouldn't do it either. And we all should be bold enough to say this is the standard and leave every man to his conscience. At the seat of Christ, when all men's works will be tried and rewarded accordingly, no one will say he or she was not told. The fire will prove all men's works at the end. I pray you don't leave this matter until then. Let him that reads understand!

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