Dear Brother David,

I must have missed some posts about this "Dr." subject discussion, but just
a note to explain myself.  I use the title Dr.  in some of my posts because
not only am I a student of the scripture for the last 35-40 years and pastor
of a local church congregation, I am also a licensed medical professional.

When you go to your family medical provider, do you call him Brother or
Doctor?

As I have been licensed for over 25 years and do have the appropriate
education to be called Dr. from a medical standpoint, I do use the title on
occasion.

Dr. Mike just happens to be the way I am recognized or acknowledged locally
by my friends, instead of Dr. Tittle

Not trying to be a snobby or uppity, just the way it is.

With all due respect to the men of the forum,
Dr Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "David M. Coe, Pastor" <pastorcoe@...>
To: "PF" <pastorsforum@...>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 4:20 PM
Subject: [PastorsForum] "Dr"


> "DOCTOR"  or  "BROTHER"
> By: Arthur W. Pink
>
> What strange methods God sometimes employs in teaching His Children much
> needed lessons!  This has recently been the writer's experience.  I have
> been approached by a "university" to accept from them a degree of "D. D."
> Asking for time to be given so that I might prayerfully seek from God,
> through His written word, a knowledge of His will, fuller light came than
> was expected.  I had very serious doubt's as to the permissibility of one
of
> God's servants accepting a title of fleshly honor.  I now perceive that it
> is wrong for me to receive it even complimentary.  Various friends, as a
> mark of respect, have addressed me as "Dr. Pink."  I now ask them to
please
> CEASE from doing so.  Let it not be understood that I hereby condemn other
> men for what they allow.  No, to their own Master they stand or fall.  The
> principal passages which have helped me I now mention, praying that it may
> please God to also bless them to others.
>
> FIRST, to the false comforters of Job, Elihu (God's representative) said.
> "Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give
> FLATTERING TITLES unto men" (Job 32:31).
>
> SECOND, "Be NOT ye called Rabbi" or teacher" (Matthew 23:8), which is what
> "Doctor" signifies.
>
> THIRD, John 5:44 reproves those who "receive honor one of another" and
bids
> us seek "the honor that cometh from God ONLY."
>
> FOURTH, none of the Lord's servants in the New Testament ever employed a
> title. "Paul, an apostle, "but never "the apostle Paul."
>
> FIFTH, the Son of God "made Himself of no reputation" (Phil. 2:7); is it
> then fitting that His servants should now follow an opposite course?
>
> SIXTH, Christ bids us learn of Him who was "meek and lowly" (Matthew
11:29).
>
> SEVENTH, one of the marks of the apostasy as "having men's persons in
> admiration because of advantage" (Jude 17).
>
> EIGHTH, we are bidden to go forth unto Christ outside the camp "bearing
His
> reproach" (Heb. 13:13).
> For these reasons it does not seem to me to be fitting that one who is
here
> as a representative and witness for a "despised and rejected" Christ
should
> be honored and flattered of men.
>
> Please address me as "BROTHER PINK"
>
>
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