All of us have basic needs, including pastors. Many people tend to feel resistant when a pastor starts talking about money. Some of this comes from very real and shameful stories of pastors and spiritual leaders extorting people, using their position to con congregations. The majority of God-loving, people-serving pastors are not in that boat. Pastor Mark will point out in this teaching that even Paul had to be careful how he dealt with money issues. He was truly living by faith, traveling through villages and towns, not knowing for sure where his next meal was going to come from, but he embraced that hardship for the sake of bringing the Gospel to the lost.