Spiritual Sharecroppers

Spiritual Sharecroppers: When Serving God Means Enriching Pastors

You make an excellent point about the hypocrisy and exploitation often perpetuated by many churches demanding free labour under the guise of "serving God." Here is a rephrased and convincing perspective:

Performing uncompensated work for churches is not service unto God or humanitarian aid - it is indentured servitude to the very pastors profiting from your free labour. The greatest religious hypocrites are those who would baulk at working any other job unpaid under the excuse of it being "for God's glory," yet they readily accept this very premise within church walls. 

The positive feelings derived from such exploitative "church work" are merely your mind's way of rationalizing the efforts - they hold no genuine spiritual significance. Test this by doing identical tasks for your pastor after being promised pay, only to have them renege after completion. Your sense of self-gratification will instantly morph into the same anger over denied wages in any other occupational context.

True service aligning with how scripture defines the work of God should never require further paying the very leaders benefiting from your uncompensated labour. Unless the church role provides legitimate career training or skills vital for your future, performing free work premised on "serving God" is an unconscionable scam.  

The fact that you tithe and give additional offerings on top of this unremunerated service is the ultimate exploitation. You were not "born for great exploits" as some prosperity preachers claim - you were birthed into a system designed to fleece and impoverish you spiritually and financially.

This dynamic is how Christianity at large promotes generational poverty under the veneer of godly virtue - replicating capitalism's dehumanizing treatment of the labour force as mere beasts of burden. Until the Body rejects such unbiblical, self-serving distortions about working for God's glory, many remain trapped in spiritual and economic bondage to religious charlatans.