2007-09-12 11:29:46 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
reply from a Christian Church regarding a prayer request:
"Prayer requests that are distributed to the
2007-09-12 13:37:56 · update #1
Ask them what Jesus would do. And see what they say
2007-09-12 11:33:25 · answer #1 · answered by Cat's Eye Angie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The usual reasoning is that if somebody's helping you out, you have to actively support them.
Like, say, somebody performed an exorcism or deliverance rite on you. Courtesy dictates that you have to join their church because they helped you and also because without their continued support, you might get reinfected.
If you're not a member, how do they know you aren't working against them? You may just be wasting their time by having them pray for something while you're their enemy.
If they ask you to be a member and it makes you feel ooky, then pick another group. Lots of places will offer to pray for you with no particular obligation...but if they offer it to everybody, bear in mind that they don't know you and have no particular connection to you, so the help they offer isn't going to be as personalized.
And I doubt it's scriptural...it's just a folklore kinda thing. But it's actually a pretty common idea...kind of a religious version of, "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours."
2007-09-12 18:38:37 · answer #2 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, that's not Scriptural at all. I attend a Catholic school, and though I'm not Catholic, (I'm assuming that this is a Christian church) Catholics and Christians are taught to love and pray for all they meet, which means everyone, including all religions. Not just members of their church. The exclusion is very un-Christlike; if you read some of Jesus's parables and look at his actions in the New Testament, you'd see immediately that it's not Scriptural at all.
Why would a church do that?
2007-09-12 18:35:53 · answer #3 · answered by Alana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh NO it is not scriptural at all! Of course you could interpret some things Paul said in his letters that could be scewed to sound like that..but no, it is not in the New Testament that you cannot pray for someone who is not a member of a church.
2007-09-12 18:34:18 · answer #4 · answered by SisterSue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, this is absolutely not true. The local church you went to is wrong. of course, you should be a member but, no it's not true. and no, its not scriptural.
i don't know why the church said that but, no, its not.
you can make a prayer request even if you are an Atheist! Anybody can make a prayer request.
---ladybug---
2007-09-12 18:42:02 · answer #5 · answered by Dallas_Cowboys 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No not in the least bit. They also put stipulations on baptismal services now days. But you can pray to Yahweh yourself in the name of Yahushua. He can hear you just as well as He hears anyone else.
God bless
2007-09-12 18:54:49 · answer #6 · answered by F'sho 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not at all!
Please feel free to post any prayer requests you might have to me via email. You will find this on my profile on this forum.
2007-09-12 18:34:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, just plain old-fashioned greed. You either tithe or forget it. Find another local church, not all are like that, I assure you. Ask yourself: What would God think of that attitude?
2007-09-12 18:35:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not, God does not decriminate between people but churches do, remember that satan keeps changing himself into a angel of light deceiving many.
2007-09-12 18:35:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should have offered them 5 bucks.
2007-09-12 18:39:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋