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11-12-2008, 10:57 AM
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Re: Title Usage In The UPC: Brother & Sister So an
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I find it presumptuous when people do call me "brother"... so you can't win!  |
More likely, it's just that people don't want to offend you.  Just say, "Call me 'Brad'" and set them at ease.
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11-12-2008, 11:01 AM
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Re: Title Usage In The UPC: Brother & Sister So an
It's an older tradition in the UPC to call most everyone "Brother ____".
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11-12-2008, 11:10 AM
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Re: Title Usage In The UPC: Brother & Sister So an
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It's an older tradition in the UPC to call most everyone "Brother ____".
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It's also a tradition of your typical lodge. "I now yield the floor to Brother Kramden.)
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11-12-2008, 11:21 AM
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Re: Title Usage In The UPC: Brother & Sister So an
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It's also a tradition of your typical lodge. "I now yield the floor to Brother Kramden.)
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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11-12-2008, 03:40 PM
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Re: Title Usage In The UPC: Brother & Sister So an
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It's an older tradition in the UPC to call most everyone "Brother ____".
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Every Apostolic church I've attended does this, not just UPCI.
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11-12-2008, 04:50 PM
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Re: Title Usage In The UPC: Brother & Sister So an
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Every Apostolic church I've attended does this, not just UPCI.
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I agree...
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11-14-2008, 02:34 PM
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Re: Title Usage In The UPC: Brother & Sister So an
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It's an older tradition in the UPC to call most everyone "Brother ____".
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Understandable, since that's what we are...brothers and sisters in Christ. I don't know why anyone would get upset at being called brother or sister...unless you aren't.
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11-14-2008, 03:52 PM
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Re: Title Usage In The UPC: Brother & Sister So an
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Understandable, since that's what we are...brothers and sisters in Christ. I don't know why anyone would get upset at being called brother or sister...unless you aren't.
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It's not getting upset that is the issue. Who cares? It's just a tradition that seems to have been made insistent on everyone. From the amount of ink such an issue gets within traditional circles, you would think it was a serious issue in the early church. The New Testament saints were not called this by a long shot, only rarely on occasion in the writings.
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11-12-2008, 11:14 AM
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Re: Title Usage In The UPC: Brother & Sister So an
I prefer to be called by my first name only. I don't like to be called sister. That's just my personal preference.
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11-12-2008, 01:44 PM
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Re: Title Usage In The UPC: Brother & Sister So an
I never could get used to the brother/sister thing. To me, it was just a way of excluding or including people. I did do it when I was in the UPC, but I never liked it. My husband and I just recently started calling people we used to know in the UPC by their first names when we talk to each other. Well....that's who they ARE!!
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