by stillin 41 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
I realize that prayer is a really personal thing, but representing a group in prayer has become so full of cliche's that I just want to vomit sometimes. For example;
CO week almost EVERY prayer has the phrase "special week of activity" in it.
Then there's "please look after the sick and afflicted."
Not so much anymore, "please bless this food and the hands that prepared it."
got any favorites of your own?
the sort of prayer i would have loved to hear....
OY GOD
LISSEN
THIS MEETIN HAS BEEN JUST SO FUCKIN BORIN--AS USUAL
WENNYA GONNA DO SUMMAT REALLY COOL
LIKE--
HIT US WIV A LIGHTNIN BOLT OR SUMMAT?
"please bless the governing body"
"please forgive us for our sins and imperfection"
"we leave this meeting in your care and direction"
just saying!
Public prayers are nothing but ass kissing and bragging. The longer the prayer apparently the more spiritual the person who says it.
The pain at the last prayer of the last day of the convention is effin unbearable.
got any favorites of your own?
All of it. Other people praying is just annoying. I believe that prayer and any connection that you have with whichever source of spirituality you choose, is personal and unique to you. Hence, including other people in any prayer is like using a public toilet. May serve the purpose but leaves you wondering how healthy the event has been.
'Interchange of encouragement' is one we hear a lot of.
We had a brother whose whole prayer was one long string of cliches.
In my just left cong there is a newbee who obviously writes out and memorises his eloquent prayers. Obviously to impress and advance his career prospects in the org. However just as I realise this there would be many who also see this and take note of the fact that he left his common law wife (and child) to marry a spiritual in the truth sister. I wonder how it will turn out for him?
Scratchme, I tend to agree with you about public prayer. Who do we think we are to claim to represent another person before God? It seems arrogant when I look at it like that. But in the context of "shared experience" like a disaster, or a meeting of JW's I will make some concessions.
The "Amen" muttered by all gets me, too.
When they recap the whole meeting...like we have to tell Jehovah all about it because otherwise he will never know....
"Father, we know we fall short because we are imperfect, so we ask you to please forgive us our sins..." blah, hlab, lahb, halb...
