“Imagine paying ur full-time pastor just N80k” – RCCG member calls out church over how much it pays pastors

A member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has sparked online discussions after sharing his dissatisfaction with the salary the church pays its Abuja pastor.

Member Reacts to Salary Disclosure

Ucee Harmony, a songwriter and long-time RCCG member, revealed his frustration on Facebook after learning about the pay of a zonal pastor in Abuja.

According to Ucee, the pastor disclosed during a church testimony that he earns just N80,000 per month.

Concerns About Pastoral Livelihood

Ucee described the amount as insufficient for a full-time pastor supporting a family in Abuja.

He questioned the practice of pastors being treated like ordinary employees of the church headquarters, receiving a fixed salary while remitting all tithes and offerings to the central office.

RCCG Criticized for Centralized Control

In his post, Ucee suggested that the church appears more like a business than a spiritual institution, noting that parishes generate revenue that is sent to the headquarters before pastors are paid.

He argued that such a system undermines the calling of pastors and reduces their work to a routine salary job.

In his words:

“A Redeemed Christian Church of God pastor who pastors one of the RCCG zones in Abuja came to our church today. He gave a testimony. While giving his testimony he said a lot of things. The one that caught my attention was when he said as a Zonal pastor in Abuja his salary is 80k in naira.

A mature full grown family man and a fulltime Zonal pastor receives 80k salary from RCCG. A family man with wife and children living of all places, Abuja. Pastors are they no longer called and ordained by God? If they are called by God why are they recruited and turned to employees to daddy GOs? Why pay them peanut as salary?

Why must they remit offerings, tithes, seed sowings, and other monetary income to the church headquarters and wait till month end to receive salary? Does it mean all their churches scattered all over the country now generate monthly revenue to the church headquarters and then allocation in form of salary is paid to pastors?

If so, church is now a full time business. Nothing spiritual, nothing special. Just business and a means of generating income, revenue to the oga at the top a.k.a Daddy G.O. All these new generation churches are into full time business, nothing you wan tell me.

No wonder in one street you can see about 7 different shops asin church business outlets. I am a Redeemed Christian Church of God member for years now, but I can’t see black and call it white. It has never been in my nature.”

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