That's what they make the vast majority of the lesser leadership do - keep a job while having a calling. So that the church can play the facade card of "no paid ministry".thisisspartaaa wrote:It's not doublespeak. Are you suggesting the Church shouldn't do this and only select GAs who can totally and wholly support themselves with their own money for the remainder of their life or until age 70?FTC wrote:ALL truth circumscribed into one great whole? Hmm?Lizzy60 wrote:"Some things that are true are not very useful." BKP
"Some truths are best left unsaid." RMN
"When truth is constrained by other virtues, the outcome is not falsehood, but silence for a season." DHO
Truthfully, they don't receive a salary. Honestly, they receive $7,000+ a month of church monies. According to the IRS, aka, the laws of the land.
The whole thing is doublespeak word play. Which has been going on with the church since polygamy. Multi-level marketing companies are also rampant with doublespeak word play.
So only rich persons can be leaders of the Church? That would have excluded President Monson considering he was called at such an early age.
I guess we can call the upper leadership getting a pension for tenure. Or stipend. Or whatever doublespeak word play we want. The end result is money, and/or assets, coming out of the coffers of the church and going into the pockets of upper management.