Any series that challenges a practice as old as a pastor’s salary will draw objections, and this one could draw dozens. It is my conclusion that none of them stands up to careful scrutiny. Still, people will have honest objections, so this final article takes up some of the more common ones and answers each from Scripture.

One clarification first: this series has never argued that salaries are wrong because the Bible doesn’t mention them. The case rests on what the Bible does say, and on what one key word means in the one passage that addresses resident elder support.