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Not a lover of money. That is not covetousness, nor greedy. That's the actual translation.

Not a lover of money doesn't mean not rich.

Okay?

It doesn't say an elder can't be rich.

Most elders, if they're vocational elders,

they need to take a livable wage,

which means they're not rich,

but they're also not impoverished.

They're not rich, but they're not poor.

So if they're a vocational elder, meaning that they actually work for the church, like I do,

then they should take a livable wage for the work that they do.

But because we believe that the Bible doesn't just allow for those elders who are paid by the church,

vocational elders, but also lay elders. Some of those lay elders, while

faithfully fulfilling the role of an elder, may have some other kind of vocation that actually is

very lucrative. And so it is possible for an elder to be rich. And so the prohibition here is

not that an elder can't be rich, but rather it is he's not a lover of money.

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