Mar 17, 2011
If prayer works, and God can hear individual prayers, what is the point of prayer groups? Wouldn’t a single prayer be enough to get the message to God? What is the benefit of getting dozens, or even hundreds of people to bother God with the same questions?
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Matthew 18: 19-20.
I am familiar with those verses, however it doesn’t answer the question. According to that reference no one should need more than 2 people praying in order to get the message through to God – there is no scriptural support for any benefit beyond getting a second person to pray with you.
It also doesn’t explain WHY a second person would be necessary… or WHY more than one person is EVER needed. Why wouldn’t God answer a prayer from single believer, but he would with two or thirty?
Why is a prayer so much less efficient than a phone, a walkie-talkie, a telegraph, or even two cans with a string connecting them?
Ever notice that those multiple prayers are requested in times of high stress, injury, illness, maybe a request for prayer from a friend whose daughter has become addicted to drugs, that sort of thing. God doesn’t need all those prayers, we do. It helps us feel better, gives us some sense of comfort in troubling times. We know that He will answer the prayer, one way or another, based on our prayer alone, but it just helps comfort us in troubling times when we are helpless to do anything else, besides, it can’t hurt anything. I guess you could call it Christian group therapy. Hope that answers your question.
So, it’s basically just a bunch of people sitting around pretending that they are doing something useful?
Absoueltly first rate and copper-bottomed, gentlemen!
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