“Jesus Wasn’t Rich” Ex-Missionary Calls Out Wealthy Pastors | Daniel Everett

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Daniel Everett challenges the promise that giving money to a church will make the giver richer. Danny opens with a conversation about a young couple who were told their businesses would earn more after they tithed. He recalls that their pastor drove a Rolls-Royce and wore a gold Rolex. Everett, a former missionary, questions how that promise fits with Jesus’ teachings about wealth. He points to the instruction to sell possessions and give to the poor, and describes the explanations he has heard from Christians who resist taking that instruction literally.

Everett draws a different example from priests he met in the Amazon. He remembers men who lived in poverty alongside the people they served and worked with them each day. He also recalls families who had very little but would offer him food and a place to sleep during his river journeys. Those experiences shaped his understanding of generosity. He describes his former father-in-law bringing hitchhikers home and helping them reach their destinations, and remembers opening his own home to visitors who needed somewhere to stay. For Everett, that willingness to share gives Christian teaching a practical meaning.

The conversation returns to what pastors should earn. Everett recalls asking a Chicago pastor why he drove a Cadillac when some members of his congregation had no car. He recounts the pastor’s explanation that the congregation wanted its representative to look successful, an answer Everett found credible in that setting. He then weighs unpaid lay ministry and salaries tied to a congregation’s average income against his own view that a pastor should be among its poorest members. He argues that a church can provide books and a place to study without making its minister wealthy, and explains why the prosperity gospel conflicts with his reading of the New Testament.

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