Can churches pay a preacher when he is preaching for another church?
In 2 Corinthians 11:8 the apostle Paul said that he robbed other churches, taking wages of them to do service at Corinth. The church at Philippi sent once and again to help Paul preach in the city of Thessalonica (Philippians 4:15,16). These examples show us that sister congregations can assist another congregation to have a gospel preacher. If churches can help a weak church financially, is it good to have a gospel meeting treasury for churches in an area to contribute to so as to help a weak church? Gospel meeting organizations are always dangerous and often sinful. When groups of churches in an area meet regularly and select officers, make decisions, and collect money, they are corrupting the simple scriptural organization of independent churches of Christ. There must be no church officers except those in every congregation (Acts 14:23). Each church makes its own decisions and is ruled only by its own officers (Acts 20:28). There must be no treasury except the treasury of each local
