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January 30, 2006
Inviting Jesus into our presence/place....really?
My friend Drew Sams has a great post titled, How Dare We Invite Jesus Into This Place.
Here's a sample:
So, the question came up in class, "How often do we in our prayers and in our conversations invite Jesus into a situation or a place?"
I mean, when you think about it, we do it all the time.
"Jesus, during this difficult time, we invite you into this place and give us peace."
"Lord, we ask that you be with us here today as we plan the upcoming year."
It has become so common in our language that if you type in "inviting Jesus" into Google, 1,680,000 search results come up at the time this was written.
So when our teacher brought up this common request today in class…we all thought nothing of it.
Until he said it was...
unbiblical.
what? unbiblical? are you saying that thousands of pastors and, come to think of it, millions of believers pray an unbiblical prayer?
after our initial shock gave way to an awkward silence...one student broke through and asked what we were all thinking, "what?"
Posted by rhett at January 30, 2006 12:18 PM
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I was reading your post and I thought I would comment back. I agree with your teacher. It says in the bible that God will never leave us or forsake us. So that means that something must be wronge with our thinking. I think what we should be saying is "God, Here I am. I am sorry for being too busy for you. Let me hear your voice and worship you in truth." Because if we were true to ourselfs, we would see it was us closing our ears and heart to God and not the opposite. God was there all along and still is.
Posted by: Kandi at January 31, 2006 07:56 AM
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