11-27-2008, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevin  I have noticed that those who object to/do not use "titles" very soon create "titles" out of "non-titles".
Those who object to "Rev." become "Brother", Those who object to "Dr" become "Pastor", those who object to "titles" become "shepherds".
It is a part of the human condition, we must call people *something*, so we use titles, honorifics, pre-nominals, xn names, patronymics, etc. IMO what Christ was warning against was people who REVELED in these particular titles. | We do have names 
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Jeffrey Wilson
Cornerstone Reformed Baptist Church
London Baptist Confession of Faith 1644
Summerland, British Columbia, Canada
"If ever a monk got to heaven by monkery, I ought to have gotten there!" Martin Luther
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