How many times have you heard Timothy and Titus referred to as the pastor of this church or that church? We even call the letters addressed to them the "pastoral" epistles.

Check out those letters. The brothers in question are never called pastors. They were simply on Paul's apostolic team that planted churches here and there. They were needed to stay at a church long enough for the real pastors (aka elders/bishops etc) to be chosen by the young congregations. Timothy and Titus would then rejoin Paul after the churches were established with godly men. Never were these spirituial sons and co-workers of Paul considered "pastors." They were forever moving from place to place. We might call them missionary evangelists today. Or not.

Not a big deal, I understand. But it has always been a bit irksome to me, to see things said or assumed that were never recorded or taught.