The content of this post is chapter 13 of James Beaty's book Paying the Pastor: Unscriptural and Traditional in its entirety. The book is available in the public domain and thus appears to not be under copyright: https://archive.org/details/payingpastoruns00beatgoog Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. Galatians 6:6 There is one other passage of Scripture that is claimed as authority for the payment to teachers of a salary by the congregation taught. Because a salary is a "good thing," therefore Paul enjoins amongst other "good things" the giving of a salary, contracted for, arranged and understood beforehand; so that, if it is not given afterward willingly, it can be forced by law. It does not matter to some people how interpretations represent one Apostle to contradict another, or even the same Apostle to contradict himself, so long as a point is gained or an argument apparently answered. The "Harmony
As the people of God, we must hold to apostolic tradition (2 Thessalonians 2:15, 3:6) but reject human tradition (Colossians 2:8). Jesus criticized the religious leaders of His day for making void the word of God for the sake of their tradition (Matthew 15:6). And He said they did this in many ways (Mark 7:13b). We are not immune to this error today. This blog exists to test (1 Thessalonians 5:21) our modern Christian traditions against Scripture to discern where we might have done the same.