Introduction

How much should a pastor make the pastor salary is a question we get often. The topic has been factored into at least three different episodes in the past that I can remember back in APJ episodes to 17 472 and 912. It seems that Paul is already regarding the words of the Lord Jesus preserved by his physician Luke as part of Scripture. This passage in first Timothy 5 17 is one of three crucial passages about how gospel ministers are to be supported.