Does Pastor Wendy Pray Better than Jesus?
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 15, 2020 1:22pm CST
The way I've been 'going to church' since the pandemic-isolation started (and a little bit before 
) is "watching the service on television." And the church I've been watching the most (other than Shepherd's Chapel (Family Bible-Study Hour)) is St. Luke's Methodist Church.
and their TV-show is mostly just 'a sermon with a little prayer.' Their latest sermon-series is called The Odd Couple (sermons about how Our Father puts us together with people who help us grow the way we wouldn't have grown without them) https://stlukesokc.org/series/the-odd-couple/
Most recently, Rev. Pastor Wendy Lambert reviewed the relationship between Justices-Ruth Bader Ginsburg & -Antonin Scalia. After describing a little bit more about their relationship, she gave us some of the suggestions that relationship inspired about 'giving thanks.'
One of those three suggestions (the reason one might suspect that Rev. Lambert "thinks she's better than Jesus") is the suggestion that we include 'thanking Our Father for the people in our lives' in our prayers.
A good idea, sure; surely one that Lord Jesus Christ included in His instructions when they asked Him 'how we are supposed to pray,' no?
... hmm ... I look at it ("The Lord's Prayer" on Wikipedia) and I only see Him suggest that 'we pray about others' when a) we ask to forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors and b) by His phrasing of the prayer---making it Our Father rather than My Father (the way they seem to be changing a lot of the prayers in Catholic churches these days).
Did Jesus forget to have us give thanks for others in our lives? Or is Pastor Wendy 'adding jots & tittles' to The Word? 
) is "watching the service on television." And the church I've been watching the most (other than Shepherd's Chapel (Family Bible-Study Hour)) is St. Luke's Methodist Church.
and their TV-show is mostly just 'a sermon with a little prayer.' Their latest sermon-series is called The Odd Couple (sermons about how Our Father puts us together with people who help us grow the way we wouldn't have grown without them) https://stlukesokc.org/series/the-odd-couple/
Most recently, Rev. Pastor Wendy Lambert reviewed the relationship between Justices-Ruth Bader Ginsburg & -Antonin Scalia. After describing a little bit more about their relationship, she gave us some of the suggestions that relationship inspired about 'giving thanks.'
One of those three suggestions (the reason one might suspect that Rev. Lambert "thinks she's better than Jesus") is the suggestion that we include 'thanking Our Father for the people in our lives' in our prayers.
A good idea, sure; surely one that Lord Jesus Christ included in His instructions when they asked Him 'how we are supposed to pray,' no?
... hmm ... I look at it ("The Lord's Prayer" on Wikipedia) and I only see Him suggest that 'we pray about others' when a) we ask to forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors and b) by His phrasing of the prayer---making it Our Father rather than My Father (the way they seem to be changing a lot of the prayers in Catholic churches these days).
Did Jesus forget to have us give thanks for others in our lives? Or is Pastor Wendy 'adding jots & tittles' to The Word? 2 people like this
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@sharonelton (25369)
• Lichfield, England
17 Oct 20
On Sundays we watch a church service on YouTube. My Mum and Step-dad watch a service on YouTube from our local church which is called Life Church, but I watch a service from a church called Freedom Church which has churches all over the world in their network. One day I want to go and live in Cardiff, Wales, and go to the Freedom Church there.
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@sharonelton (25369)
• Lichfield, England
18 Oct 20
@mythociate What I like most about church is the praise and worshio, singing, and the fellowship, which we're not getting any of at the moment because of this virus. The sermons are good too, especially if they consist of something that you can implement in your daily life and act out.
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