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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you say pastor, do you mean like Catholic or like a giant “nondenominational” Christian church where clergy don’t have actual divinity degrees? Responses will vary based on that answer.[/quote]

Maybe yours didn’t? All of mine had at least one divinity degree. [/quote]

In non-denominational churches pastors can just invent themselves - be filled with the spirit.  No advanced degree necessary.  As long as they can build a congregation, [b]they can rake in the dough[/b].[/quote]

My pastor husband really raked it in when he was making $10,000….a year. 😂[/quote]

Your husband didn't make a lot of money, but [b]some[/b] pastors do.

Was your husband seminary trained?  How long ago was he a pastor?[/quote]

Yes, he has a Master’s degree from a top seminary. This was about 3-5 years ago, he made that for about 2 or 3 years. He is still a pastor just at a different church.

There’s one PP who (I suspect over several threads) likes to take “one” or “some” and make it sound like all. It would even be helpful to provide a sample size. For example, “I went to ten nondenominational churches in dc and none of the pastors had a seminary degree” is more convincing than “in nondenominational churches pastors can just invent themselves” which is obviously not true over a larger sample size. (Though the latter is certainly more inflammatory.) I know far more seminary trained bivocational pastors than full salaried pastors. And I know none that are making celebrity pastor salaries. As you can imagine I know a lot of pastors. :) [/quote]

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