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Originally Posted by gr8ful
However, at one point ... I was offered a standard salary as a W-2 worker to encourage me to stay in a service capacity. It was a "last resort" allowance, ...The amount offered was half what I was offered in private business, but it was higher than minimum wage.
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In the LC, such 'workers' are supposedly building up the Body of Christ, and many of them genuinely do serve the spiritual needs of others. But the bottom line is that in the LC you exist to build up the Guanxi Network. If you look at the list of salaried employees, James Lee makes $111,500 to run the print shop. I daresay he's at the center of the network. I know of Blendeds who get their children on the LSM payroll.
Everyone else is told it's a service to the Lord. You don't get paid in this age. To me, it's a form of indentured servitude, borderline slavery in some cases. You are in the army, you don't have rights, they say. But in the NT, where do you see the basis for such distorted human relations? People should serve the Lord, not a printing house/media company!
It's a scam, people - we got jobbed. I know, I was there. And here's the acid test: if you serve others, but the 'ministry' doesn't get its cut, how long will you last, before you're marginalized and then removed? Your service means nothing if they don't benefit. If you love the Lord, and love others, not just in word but in deed, and the 'ministry' isn't the recipient of the outpoured blessing, you will be viewed with suspicion and alarm. You are doing a "separate work", yada yada.