If your pastor is not the leader of your relationship with him, then while he may be a pastor, hes not really your pastor. Christians seeking to emancipate themselves, ultimately looking for pastoral peer status, should look into missionary work, church planting, or perhaps taking on a more active subordinate pastoral role till getting enough experience to be sought after as an independent pastor. The world pastor means shepherd (a leader of sheep). Church congregations are made up of sheep, not fellow shepherds. The only peers that pastors tend to acknowledge are others in equitable lead positions over other congregations. The Online Etymology Dictionary: pastor (n.) late 14c. (mid-13c. as a surname), shepherd, also spiritual guide, shepherd of souls, from Old French pastor, pastur herdsman, shepherd (12c.), from Latin pastorem (nominative pastor) shepherd, from pastus, past participle of pascere to lead to pasture, set to grazing, cause to eat, from PIE root *pa- to tend, keep, pasture, feed, guard, protect (see food). The spiritual sense was in Church Latin (e.g. Gregorys Cura Pastoralis). The verb in the Christian sense is from 1872. etymonline/index.php?term=pastor
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