Using pastor as catch-all title creates a slippery slope toward egalitarianism

A female 'pastor' who serves as children's music director isn't doing elder work — that's fine. But the title creates confusion and a genuine slippery slope. What starts as 'we're just calling her a pastor because she does caretaking' ends up as 'why can't she do all the pastor things?' Give it 10-20 years and many of these churches will become egalitarian. Recommends: get back to using Elder and Deacon, or use Pastor as synonym for Elder only, not as a catch-all.