Keep Having Kids To Keep Getting Government Assistance?
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🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | brought to you by CHOM, a budget-friendly faith-based alternative to health insurance. |
| 0:07.6 | CH Ministries.org slash budget. |
| 0:10.5 | Hi, well, I'm calling with sort of a financial, moral, ethical, and biblical question, all in one. |
| 0:16.6 | Let it rip. |
| 0:17.3 | So my brother and I, we both working ministry, different churches. |
| 0:22.6 | We live in different states. |
| 0:23.7 | He's clear across the country than me. |
| 0:25.7 | He and his wife, they have eight children, and their belief is that God called us to go |
| 0:30.4 | forth and multiply, and they believe Christians should be having his money children. |
| 0:33.8 | Well, they are doing a good job of that. |
| 0:36.6 | Well, regardless of finances. So their only |
| 0:39.5 | income is my brother's pastor's salary, and as you may imagine, pastor's salaries, you know, |
| 0:44.4 | nobody goes into the ministry to, you know, make it big. Um, so he has actually said in |
| 0:50.5 | podcasts and interviews that if you have more children, then you can afford to have. |
| 0:55.4 | That qualifies you as the needy. And the church and family members are called to help the needy. |
| 1:01.8 | And so his solution to this is to be on state aid in addition to a salary and his in-laws also |
| 1:07.8 | pay them a stipend every month because they believe he's in ministry |
| 1:10.9 | and they should be helping them with their bills. |
| 1:13.2 | I think it's lunacy. |
| 1:14.4 | I think it's crazy, and I was just kind of curious what your opinion was of that. |
| 1:18.3 | I completely agree. |
| 1:20.4 | Thank you. |
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