Editing Rich Mullins (section)

=== Philosophy and philanthropy ===
The profits from his tours and the sale of each album were entrusted to his church elders, who divided it up, paid Mullins the average salary for a laborer in the U.S. for that year, and gave the rest to charity.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.kidbrothers.net/legacy/homeless-man-video.html |title = Homeless Man video transcript |publisher = kidbrothers.net |access-date = October 31, 2012 |archive-date = July 25, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120725013647/http://www.kidbrothers.net/legacy/homeless-man-video.html |url-status = live }}</ref> Mullins was also a major supporter of [[Compassion International]]<ref name="Music and More Interview with Jon Rivers">{{cite web |url = http://kidbrothers.net/interviews/musicandmore.html |title = Music and More Interview with Jon Rivers |access-date = September 8, 2008 |archive-date = February 11, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090211135020/http://kidbrothers.net/interviews/musicandmore.html |url-status = live }}</ref> and Compassion USA.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://kidbrothers.net/webpage/rmml/rmml143.html |title = Rich Mullins Mailing List 143 |publisher = kidbrothers.net |access-date = October 31, 2012 |archive-date = July 25, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120725010641/http://kidbrothers.net/webpage/rmml/rmml143.html |url-status = live }}</ref>

His philosophy can be understood by a quote he gave at a concert shortly before his death. He said,

{{blockquote|quote=Jesus said whatever you do to the least of these my brothers you've done it to me. And this is what I've come to think.  That if I want to identify fully with Jesus Christ, who I claim to be my Savior and Lord, the best way that I can do that is to identify with the poor. This I know will go against the teachings of all the popular evangelical preachers.  But they're just wrong.  They're not bad, they're just wrong. Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in a beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you.  Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved, and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken-hearted.<ref name="Lufkin, Texas, July '97" /><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQnFU5JvuWY {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506084729/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQnFU5JvuWY |date=May 6, 2017 }}
''(The quoted speech begins at 7:40 of this video reference.)''</ref>}}