Chapter 10 in Close Your Church for Good is called «
Let Prayer Meetings Cease.»
The main reason a church might want to consider
letting prayer meetings cease is that even when prayer meetings are healthy and people don't learn bad types of praying, they still teach people bad habits about prayer.
Not exact matches
As a result, we tracked almost 3,000 new
prayer initiatives in April alone, ranging from simple
prayer meetings in churches that would never normally gather to intercede, right through to 24 - 7
prayer rooms in rural congregations that never imagined they would ever in 1,000 years manage to pray all night —
let alone enjoy the experience!
Tina snapped a few pictures, and
let me tell you, she's probably the most beautiful person I've ever
met in real life, ever, and we jumped from weddings to babies to travelling to inappropriate theology to publishing to
prayer, and back again.
Having no model at all to
meet the upkeep on and no known shape to whip themselves into, they would for the first time be open to looking for really new answers — honest answers — that could range anywhere from «We haven't the foggiest notion, but
let's get together next Sunday and see if anything's occurred to us in the meantime,» to «We're here to be the church, I suppose — whatever that means,» to «How about for openers we just try to stick with fellowship, breaking bread, and saying
prayers?
I have sometimes been in
prayer meetings where people clearly lose their train of thought, or they don't really know how to pray for the issue at hand, and so rather than pause, or stumble around for the right words, or simply pray wrongly and
let God sort it out (He doesn't mind), the person instead starts to «speak in tongues,» thus trying to impress everybody with their spirituality.
The SCOTUS voted to
let prayer start public government
meeting with a
prayer.
Let's pretend that you're correct, and allow
prayers to begin public
meetings.
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Let Me In» Azin Samari * — «Ethel,» «The September Issue» Margaret Sixel — «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «Happy Feet» Mary Stephen — «Blind Mountain,» «A Tale of Winter» Troy Takaki — «Baggage Claim,» «The Bounty Hunter» Camilla Toniolo — «His Way,» «Company Man» Bernat Vilaplana — «Crimson Peak,» «Pan's Labyrinth» Pax Wassermann — «Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me,» «Pussy Riot: A Punk
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«Supreme Court to hear case on separating church and state; Justices will consider whether to
let city councils open their
meetings with explicitly Christian
prayers»: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.
Going back to the two examples:
Let's say an LGBTQ group was having a non-privileged support group
meeting (no professional or licensed therapists present) and a local mosque was having a youth
prayer meeting.