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Originally Posted by Nell
"The paying of the (hireling) worker" is EXACTLY the issue. Paid workers are hirelings. Hired hands. The scripture uses the word "hireling." However you try to spin it with your word games, you don't get to change the subject. You pay someone to work for you, you employ a hired hand.
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There's nothing wrong with brothers or sisters being supported by others. The N.T. addresses this. (I Tim 5.17-18; Luke 10.7)
The hireling, however, only cares for his wages, and thus is loyal only to his paycheck. This is what troubled me. N.T. workers owe their loyalties to God and to the ones that care for them.
The LC system demands that all their workers owe allegiance to headquarters, and headquarters alone. The few workers, whom I have seen over the years, who served only God and the saints, were eventually fired, quarantined, and excommunicated by those who wrote the paychecks.
It was these fiery trials of the faith which determined who was a hireling and who was a real shepherd.