Do you prefer church folks call you brother or sister? Why/why not?
__________________ "It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." Dave Barry 2005
I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
No. Please don't precede my name with brother.
As a matter of fact I sometimes like to call people by their first name at church because many just look at me like "I can't believe u didn't call me brother or sister first. I just like messing with religious traditions that folks cling to and consider almost a heaven or hell thing if you don't go along.
Gets me also how new folks come to church and those in the church introduce themselves by saying "hello, I'm Brother or sister so and so.
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I don't mind calling older folks "Brother" or "Sister". It sort of replaces Mr or Mrs to me. But I really don't like using it for anyone else outside of the lodge where I have no problem saying "Brother Kramden" or "Brother Norton".
It's an interesting tradition. Do other churches do this, or is it a UPC thing?
__________________ "It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." Dave Barry 2005
I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
It's an interesting tradition. Do other churches do this, or is it a UPC thing?
A lot of other churches say Brother and Sister not just UPC. Btw, I've never been to a UPC...
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...Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ...(Acts 20:21)
No. Please don't precede my name with brother.
As a matter of fact I like to call people by their first name at church because many just look at me like "I can't believe u didn't call me brother or sister first. I just like messing with religious traditions that folks cling to and consider almost a heaven or hell thing if you don't go along.
Gets me also how new folks come to church and those in the church introduce themselves by saying "hello, I'm Brother or sister so and so.
Granted not calling someone "brother" or "sister" is not a sin but pride is.
Yes, it's a tradition, but it's a tradition based in scripture.
"Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity" 1 Timothy 5:1-2
I refer to most as "sister" or "brother" who are in the faith, I refer to the older women as "mother", who are in the faith. I do so out respect not out of necessity. For those who don't hold to that tradition, I'm fine with, but making an effort not to in order to attract attention is pretty prideful to me.
To those of you that have achieved this heightened level of scripture knowledge as to where you can look down on all of us silly apostolic folks and our traditions, I warn you, pride comes before the fall (Proverbs 16:17).
It's an interesting tradition. Do other churches do this, or is it a UPC thing?
PAW, PCAF, COOLJC I know for a fact all three. Most every COGIC and African American Pentecostal Church does as well OP or not. I know also some Assemblies of God and Charismatic churches do. Most African American Baptist churches and some black Methodist churches. A whole chunk of the protestant movement does this. It's a VERY common practice in evangelical christiandom.
It's an interesting tradition. Do other churches do this, or is it a UPC thing?
There is also the Water Buffaloes, the Royal Order of the Racoons, and the Grand Mystic Royal Order of the Nobles of the Ali Babel Temple of the shrine.
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