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Originally Posted by shag
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.
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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).
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