Can Pastors Be Rich?: Guest Interview with Ben Kirby of Preachers ‘N Sneakers

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🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Should pastors have $5,000 sneakers or $100,000 cars? Are big churches successful or just showy? Get answers to these questions and more in this discussion between https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/keith-simon/ (Pastor Keith Simon) and Ben Kirby of https://preachersnsneakers.com/ (Preachers ‘N Sneakers). Interested in more content like this? Scroll down for more resources and related episodes, including https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/what-does-jesus-say-about-stuff-and-money-who-is-jesus-mark-8-36/ (What Does Jesus Say About Stuff and Money?) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-to-radically-change-your-life-learning-to-follow-jesus-luke-9-12-17/ (How to Radically Change Your Life). Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit ourhttps://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ ( website) and follow us onhttps://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks ( Facebook),https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ ( Instagram), andhttps://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast ( Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Tim Men of Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.0	My name is Patrick Miller.
0:12.0	And I'm Keith Simon.
0:14.0	Ben Kirby, the guy behind Preachers and Sneakers is with us today.
0:18.0	Ben, thanks for joining us.
0:20.0	Hey Keith, thanks for having me, man.
0:22.0	So you were a guy with 400 Instagram followers,
0:25.0	and all of a sudden you posted a worship leader with expensive shoes,
0:29.0	I'm not even sure which ones they were,
0:30.0	and your whole account blew up. Tell us a story, what happened?
0:34.0	Yeah, two years ago I was sitting on my couch here in Dallas and noticed a worship
0:40.0	leader on YouTube wearing a pair of Conyers collaboration with Adidas, they call them Yeezies, and he was wearing a limited pair of Yeezies that I knew at the time
0:49.9	we're reselling for like 800 to a thousand dollars and like you said I was an average
0:55.1	nothing dude with maybe 400 followers and I just made a video for my people that
1:00.6	followed me just trying to make them laugh and say hey did you guys know these shoes are worth that much and like how do I get on the payroll and so I made a few videos like that and then what it ended up turning into was me reposting pastors and worship leaders own pictures on their
1:15.1	Instagram's and then juxtaposing the resale or market value price of those sneakers
1:21.2	or street wear whatever right next to it and it caused people to lose
1:25.2	their mind.
1:26.2	Yeah like a lot of ways.
1:27.5	You got written up in Washington Post, lots of different big major media outlets started covering you and your
1:33.8	Instagram went from 400 to well I don't know what it is today but over a million
1:38.2	followers right? So on my personal Instagram accounts I started making the videos but
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