Brother and Sister

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Originally Posted by trialedbyfire

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).

I always refer to those of age in the church as "elder" or "sister", or even Mr or Mrs to show respect. But the ones in the middle age(my age) that grew up in "the church", and think its a requirement of "the body of Chriist" (U know the REAL TRUE body) to refer to everyone as brother or sister, and are devastated according to their facial expression when you dont say it, and think youre backslidden because you didnt call them brother David or Sister Suzie, those are the ones I like to bring back to earth by not saying brother or sister. That particular type of traditional mindset (to that degree)to me, pushes being "so heavenly minded, no earthly good category".