Now it’s Reverend Anderson!

I had called a Nursing Home today where we offered to do some volunteer work and the person that returned the call left a message saying, "Hi Reverend Anderson." 

I am still getting a little chuckle out of that. I haven’t erased the message from my phone yet, since I am still trying to decide if I should just assume this new Title.

Speaking of titles - most of the time now, I introduce myself as Elder Anderson, and of course, that is what it says on my name tag. Many of the people we have met here in Mound City belong to the Mound City Christian Church. So of course, I am curious about what they believe. I pull up their website and they have a page that lists their basic beliefs. What caught my attention was the last statement in their list of beliefs stated the following:

We believe the Bible teaches that the Elders are the leaders of the local congregation (Acts 20:28; Philippians 1:1; 1 Timothy 3:1-7; Titus 1:5-9; 1 Peter 5:1-4)

So when these people see "Elder" on my badge - they may be mistakenly thinking I am the leader of our local Congregation.