Those who use the word "reverend" or "priest for a person in a church gathering are thinking of that person as the mediator between them and God. This is idolatry.
1 Timothy 2:5-6
"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time."
Don't be an idolatrizer, someone who idolizes people. We love people, and we care deeply about our brothers and sisters in Christ, this is love, not idolatry.
No one deserves our allegiance except God. The Holy Spirit is everything to us all the time. People can be helpful as they are led by the Holy Spirit but their opinion without the Holy Spirit is just their human thoughts. We are free to dismiss what doesn't come from the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
Isaiah 11:1-3
"There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord."
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