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Subject Pastors, Beware the American Dream
Date November 25, 2025 5:01 PM
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Pastors, Beware the American Dream


Ray Comfort


The American dream is life, liberty, and the pursuit of money. It must be, because that’s how society works. Money pays church expenses — salaries, rent or the mortgage, electricity bills for lighting, heating, or air conditioning, staff and public liability insurance, etc. Sadly, we need money to have a place to have a church service. Despite that being so, we should have a higher aspiration than making money. Let’s consider biblical principles on contentment and materialism for pastors.




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