Prayer…You Can’t Keep A Good Thing Down
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“Am I the only one who gets embarrassed when religious leaders in America talk about having prayer in public schools? We don’t have even that much prayer in many churches!…
I am sure that the Roman emperors didn’t have prayer to God in their schools. But then, the early Christians didn’t seem to care what Caligula or Claudius or Nero did. How could any emperor stop God? How, in fact, could the demons of hell make headway when God’s people prayed and called upon his name? Impossible!
In the New Testament we don’t see Peter or John wringing their hands and saying, ‘Oh, what are we going to do? Caligula’s bisexual…he wants to appoint his horse to the Roman Senate…what a terrible model of leadership! How are we going to respond to this outrage?’”
–Jim Cymbala, “Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire”
Jim is the pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle in New York. What do you think?
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I don’t understand the desire to force prayer on others. It might have worked back when most people would have at least called themselves Christians, but not any more. Do you really want an atheist teacher to lead a class in prayer because he is forced to? Or have equal rights exercised and have a Satan worshiping parent insist on having prayer to their god?
I would much rather teach my own kids how to pray in my own house.
I also think we forget to easily that we are not of this world, but are just pilgrims on a journey through this land. Current events and political happenings are not something to get obsessed over, but rather our focus should be above.