He said that if you fall asleep, lose your focus, or not finish before saying "In Jesus name, Amen", that you are disrepecting Jehovah. After all, you wouldn't fall asleep or just quit talking to your boss, or a friend so you can never expect Jehovah to accept that type of prayer.
38, I too had an elder say this to me...I was a teenager and I always fell asleep praying. He made me feel bad, and then I just stopped praying after that, and I haven't prayed since!!
Another Elder said, ''Unless you are dying, you should never miss the ''mee-teen'', here is where you will receive, life, saving, instruction! You would not want to miss that! So, brothas and sistas, there is never a good excuse for missing the ''mee-teen''!''
I was pissed off when I heard him say that. I thought about all the times that families have sick kids, and cant make it, or elderly ones that are ill, or ones that have car trouble, or any other good excuse to not be there, and he basically said, none of it was a good enough excuse. Be there, unless you're dead. What a stupid zealous fanatical idiot.