What the hell is wrong with the church Jesus loves the church

What's the Biblical model for who gets paid and who doesn't get paid at the church? Apostle Paul didn't get paid. He had his own tent making business which paid for his expenses. We look deeper in the the old testament and the new testament for answer to this question.

There's about 5-6 churches from my house that is walking distance. Why do we have so many churches? Are we just competing against one another? Why don't we all just merge and forget about all the denominations and just build up the kingdom of God rather than building up our own church?

This is our first episode of 'What the hell is wrong with the church'. The title may sound negative, but the goal of our podcast is to address some problems in the church that we believe are not in line with the Bible and we try to suggest some solutions to these problems from a Biblical perspective. We want to bring unity to the churches by discussing things that may have divided churches in the first place.