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A Question for Pastors - 10/9/2008 11:46:18 AM
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Calea37
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I have a question for all of you pastors out there:
As a Pastor, do you find it offensive and/or disrespectful if a member of the congregation calls you by your first name instead of "Pastor so-and-so"?
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RE: A Question for Pastors - 10/9/2008 2:12:23 PM
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Lycea
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No. I think that titles tend to puff people up. For those raised in the generation where they would have a problem calling me by my first name, I tell them to please call me pastor ______, But that is for their benefit not mine. And I don't allow people to call me reverend, and it bugs me to no end when the paper or other publication puts it in there as Rev._______, because I think that only God is to be revered and reverenced.
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RE: A Question for Pastors - 10/9/2008 4:21:53 PM
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rcjames
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Absolutely not.
I am called by all kinds of names; Pastor, R.C., Tiny, or even "Hey You", I am never offendid as I am just one of the Saints with a little differnt calling than most.
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RE: A Question for Pastors - 10/9/2008 5:53:52 PM
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My husband doesn't get offended at all. He lets people call him whatever they want to call him.
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RE: A Question for Pastors - 10/9/2008 8:43:25 PM
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RE: A Question for Pastors - 10/10/2008 11:43:58 AM
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Calea37
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RC, I agree with you.
Thanks, all, for your replies.
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Isaiah 2:22 Stop regarding man, whose breath life is in his nostrils; for why should he be esteemed?
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RE: A Question for Pastors - 10/12/2008 2:28:15 PM
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Call me whatever you like, I'm just glad to see you in church worshipping God.
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RE: A Question for Pastors - 10/14/2008 1:43:28 AM
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donkesner
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I'm glad we have come to a point in ministry where we don't feel we have to be referred to by a title. I have never liked titles. My congregation calls me by my first name, or by brother, or pastor. And we like it that way
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RE: A Question for Pastors - 10/14/2008 10:39:15 AM
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ffbruce
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quote:
ORIGINAL: Calea37
I have a question for all of you pastors out there:
As a Pastor, do you find it offensive and/or disrespectful if a member of the congregation calls you by your first name instead of "Pastor so-and-so"?
Not at all.
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RE: A Question for Pastors - 10/14/2008 10:42:32 AM
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ffbruce
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ORIGINAL: Lycea
No. I think that titles tend to puff people up. For those raised in the generation where they would have a problem calling me by my first name, I tell them to please call me pastor ______, But that is for their benefit not mine. And I don't allow people to call me reverend, and it bugs me to no end when the paper or other publication puts it in there as Rev._______, because I think that only God is to be revered and reverenced.
I agree with you about the title "reverend", although I don't make an issue of it. Most people mean absolutely no offense by it.
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