Deep Thoughts: Pray-as-you-go

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Pray-as-you-go

Prayer If prayer is supposed to be this deeply personal conversation with God, then why do people feel compelled to download the prayers of others? Pray-as-you-go facilitates this nonsense. What kind of idiot would listen to somebody else pray? You might as well be spinning a prayer wheel.

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Mark Dobson · 845 weeks ago

This isn't a valid criticism.

Either you didn't listen at all, or you didn't listen at all carefully. You don't listen to someone else praying in these mp3s, unless you count a very short doxology at the end.

If you're going to sneer, at least do it properly.

Plus, with sentences like "What kind of idiot why listen to somebody else pray?" floating about, perhaps it might be pertinent to ask what kind of man why not proof read.

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Mojoey 107p · 845 weeks ago

Thanks for catching my mistake. I corrected it.

so.... what it is then? Music to facilitate praying?

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Mark Dobson · 845 weeks ago

Thank you for not getting riled; I was rather childish I think.

There's always a bit of music at the beginning, but that's not really the thrust of it.

There's a passage from the scriptures (tends to be read a couple of times if it's short) usually followed by either questions to reflect on or another suggestion for how to meditate on and receive the passage at a personal level. It works a bit like a short personal Bible study really, although it would probably be more accurate to consider it a modern form of Lectio Divina, designed to be rather more palatable to the average Christian. The music part works much in the same way.

It finishes with the traditional Catholic doxology, "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen"

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Mojoey 107p · 845 weeks ago

I don't mind when people point out my mistakes. I make enough of them that I feel the criticism is justified, and I appreciate the help.

I would have to agree with you on my criticism of pray-as-you-go. It sounds more like a meditation tool, which is pretty cools. I do the same thing with poetry.

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Denny · 812 weeks ago

Of course it is ridiculous the way it was stated by you. Sadly though, it was obvious you did not listen because that is not what pray as you go is at all - making your criticism invalid. I always wonder why people use their energy to "fight" something they do not believe exists....Why do you not take the energy and do something good for someone else?

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Mojoey 107p · 812 weeks ago

Of course it is. Pray as you go - pay as you go... Commercialized Christianity, what is worse?

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