Read this newspaper article today and got intrigue by it.

New Creation Pastor Earning $500k last year.

If you chance upon the straits times forum, you can see some people defending this pay(obviously from new creation) but lets hear from what my views are.

Why God told the israelites to give offering to the levites in the bible is because the levites do not sow on any land and they are fully responsibile of the ark (like maintaining it) and the offerings are to help the levites go by to day to day living and survival to ensure they are taken care of their needs.

The average big non-profit organisation ceo earns about 8 to 10k per month (even nkf and children society ceo earns about this), I dont understand why new creation has to remmuerate their pastor with such a high figure (500k per annum, 41.666K per month) Almost four times the amount.

There are new creation members talking about how well recieved was pastor prince in other countries like us,europe and even appeared on their tv but we are talking about doing God's work. So do us christians hope to earn more money by spreading the gospel? I believe most of us would not think like this? I believe the salary of the pastor should be capped and (people would say no motivation) but talking about God's kingdom, the motivation should not be from material holdings but by the prompting of the Holy Spirit. THAT SHOULD BE THE SOURCE OF MOTIVATION!

I do hope the new creation board can reflect wisely on this decision made as it definately not very accomodable with many christians.

I believe the money can be used more wisely like supporting church planters and also people living in poverty.