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7.12.2010

Church

I went with Megan yesterday to the service she usually attends. It wasn't too bad, a little big for my taste, I'm more into the smaller, personal setting. I was enjoying it until it got to the end and he asked people to pray the "salvation prayer" if they never had - okay, still not bad. THEN we get to the end of the prayer and he asks everyone to raise their hand if they prayed that prayer and come forward so he could give them a Bible. Am I the only one that finds things like this slightly annoying? Maybe because I feel like so many pastors love to say "We saved ___ people this Sunday!!!" How arrogant of you. Perhaps the words God spoke through you saved them, but YOU didn't do it. I don't know, it just seems a little strange to me.

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  1. I agree. Often times it looks more like just a big show. Besides what of those people who prayed it but are so shy they won't come forward...kinda makes them feel bad right off the bat.

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  2. yeah, it's a little too in-your-face for me. i just don't think that asking someone to pray a prayer in a group of hundreds of people is the most effective way, maybe getting to know the people and spending one on one time with them THEN helping them come to God, that's one thing. I don't know, it just bothered me..

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