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Originally Posted by freeatlast
None of these verses show that these were addressed as brother or sister.
We do not use the trem in our church much..we try not to..old habits are hard to break.
Our newer guests feeling uncomfortable with it..or anyone feeling out of place by everyone being called bro or sis and them not being addressed as bro or sis.
Just trying to sensitive to new folks.
Whatever works in your church.
Our pastor is also addressed, as he asked to be, by Pastor "first name"
Some here might consider that disrespectful, but I assure our pastor is respected and loved.
If it is disrespectful..then please tell me Paul's last name
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*note to self...get to threads before freeatlast to avoid being a pentecostal parrot*
Amen to the spirit embodied above.
non-specific titles are perfectly appropriate as a substitute for a proper name and do bear witness of the premise of our shared association --one family in heavean and earth.
When the title gets affixed to a proper name it has now become a basis for segregation rather than unity.
If I use my professional license initials (in my case they are suffixed), I am distinguishing myself from those who can not, in honesty, include them.
Dr. or Prof. are two other very common differentiators.
If we apply the title of Brother or Sister as an antecedent and then continue to afix it to a given or proper name, we are inherently acknowledging a position of distinction that one must acknowledge membership in or not membership in.
How does that edify?
"HI, FELLOW
WITHIN PERSON, ISN"T IT GREAT WE UNDERSTAND WHAT WE ARE WITHIN [and all these other folks can try and figure out if they are WITHOUT].
Oh in case any of you were wondering....this is only my opinion.
