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Hi! I’m Jesse and I don’t have all the answers. As a pastor, there are questions I’ve encountered over and over. They’re sometimes about theology and the Bible, but more often they’re about everyday life, and they can’t be answered easily or quickly. If you’ve never had the opportunity to ask a pastor tough questions this is the place to ask them, and I’ll do my best to respond honestly, authentically and biblically. Pastor, priest, reverend, minister; why so many titles?—Marcus, VIC I remember once trying to describe what a pastor was to someone I'd just met. While I did my best to try and differentiate "pastor" from "priest", I eventually gave up and said, "Yep, I'm basically a priest!" The short answer is, depending on what tradition of Christianity you belong to will determine the word you use. Think of it like ice-cream. Chocolate chip, vanilla and hokey pokey are all ice-cream but they're distinct flavours. It's the same with Christians. Most Protestants (those who trace their tradition's roots
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