Of course, they are harder to recognize as prayers because they are nothing like what often passes for prayer in churches and
prayer meetings today (per your previous posts).
There does seem to be some sort of gathering for prayer here and there in Scripture, but as you point out, I don't think they looked like
our prayer meetings today.
Not exact matches
Today, the Supreme Court finally weighed in on the hotly debated Town of Greece VS. Galloway case, determining that public
meetings can start with «religion specific -
prayer» (i.e. «In Jesus» name...»).
Prayer is vital, and gathering with other believers is vital, and praying together with others is vital, but none of this requires a regularly scheduled prayer meeting, as practiced in some churches
Prayer is vital, and gathering with other believers is vital, and praying together with others is vital, but none of this requires a regularly scheduled
prayer meeting, as practiced in some churches
prayer meeting, as practiced in some churches
today.
1928 editorial from the Wall Street Journal, «What America needs
today is not Government controls, industrial expansion, or a bumper corn crop; America needs to return to the day when grandpa took the team out of the field in the early afternoon on Wednesday in order to hitch them to the old spring wagon which grandma put all the children after she washed their faces shining clean; and they drove off to
prayer meeting in the little white church at the crossroads underneath the oak trees, where everyone believed the Bible, trusted Christ, and loved one another.»
But it was a
prayer meeting I attended twenty - some years ago that first got me questioning the very concept of faith that most Christians embrace
today.
«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.