I have a couple of dictionary definitions for the word “Reverend”<\/p>\n
“A member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n “A title of respect<\/strong> for a clergyman”<\/em><\/p>\n So I ask you, should certain people be called spiritual leaders of Christians or be respected by Christians after they continually and willfully disgrace themselves through obvious worldly and religious Harlotry? Should Christians call these religious harlots “Reverend” just because they got through some religious training program?<\/p>\n Somehow the title “Reverend” just does not fit many that are using it today.<\/p>\n Jesus did not like titles for good reason (Mt 23 7:12), leaders in the Church are to be servants. Titles like “Reverend” just puff people up.<\/p>\n Okay, having\u00a0 said that, I will give those with the title “Reverend” some slack since you really have little say in the matter.<\/p>\n But, don’t you think that the Body of Christ should also be able to choose not to use the title when it is clear that the “Reverend” is nothing but a figure that is in worldly religious harlotry?<\/p>\n Should Christians call race baiters and those in radical socialist or liberation theology “Reverend”? Should we “Reverend” people dispensing Communism, Universalism, same sex marriage, or a gospel of name-it-and-claim it, under the guise of Christianity?\u00a0 Should Christians call those that deny biblical doctrinal truths “Reverend”? Hardly a day goes by that I do not read some statement by some “Reverend” that is totally contrary to biblical truth but even the Christian publications quoting him\/her will still use the title, “the Reverend Blank-and-Blank”. Is there some law that says you have to use the title “Reverend”?<\/p>\n I do not mind revering some leaders in the Church that earned honor but I will be darned if I will ever call the leader of the Latter Day Church of Deception and Harlotry, by the title “Reverend”.<\/p>\n The Bible says to give honor to whom honor is due, but these people are dishonorable so I am not going to honor them. I know it would be futile to even suggest that the institutions that give out these titles rescind them when their “Reverend” do not honor the biblical doctrine of Christ, because many of these same institutions are where the “Reverend” obtained the seeds of their heresy and harlotry in the first place.<\/p>\n I really think there is more hope for unbelievers and believers bound in sins than there is for the “Reverend” that blasphemy God by using Christianity (founded on His Son’s name) in order to promote their own selfish worldly agenda. Many of these “Reverend” were never in the body of Christ and their honorable title will not go with them where they are going.<\/p>\n