The Body or Money?

Ephesians 4:11-13 (11) And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, (12) for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, (13) till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

I was recently invited down a path of examining the Scriptures posing the question, "What is mandated by the Bible about the Church's ministry?" While Gardening today, I was reflecting on the issue of "candidating " for "full-time" ministry positions. Wondering, I turned to this passage in my mind. What should drive us: Money-positions or the people in our lives?

Paul seems to emphasize in this passage that the purpose of any role in the Body of Christ is the building up of The Body, which is the people of God. He indicates a structure of how this is to happen, but he seems to emphasize the goal above anything else, repeating it and describing it with passion and tender words. Do we take this goal seriously? What if I was motivated by the desire for the body to come to the unity of the Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God as we grow into the fullness of Christ? Would that still motivate me if the church couldn't afford to pay me in a full-time position? If the saints can work in the world to support their role in the body of Christ, can the Pastor or Teacher? So, should we be driven by money or the people God places in our lives? I'm not sure it's totally one or the other. But I wonder how seriously we consider the health of the body and our contribution to the body's growth as we each do our part in ministering to one another in love. Would anything change?