Doug Giles at Townhall reports on an unnamed Florida pastor with a clothing allowance from his church of $60,000/year. Whoa! In expressing his disapproval, he gives 5 guidelines for when it's probably time to leave your church:
- If your male pastor wears diamond stud earrings, leave.
- If your pastor is forty-plus years old and bleaches the tips of his hair blond, leave.
- If your pastor wears more hair gel than all five guys in the boy band One Direction, leave.
- If your pastor has a church funded clothing budget of any amount, especially a sixty grand a year allowance, leave.
- If your pastor quotes Oprah more than Obadiah, leave.
- If your pastor sounds more like Tony Robbins than the Apostle Paul, leave.
Most pastors are extremely hard working and usually the opposite of fashionistas and their lifestyle is not one of conspicuous consumption, but Giles' guidelines are probably useful to begin asking some hard questions about the general stewardship IQ at one's local church if you see the signs. See Matt. 6:24.
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