Attention churches: The Mesa Prayer Walk is seeking churches willing to "encircle the city in prayer" at 3 p.m. Jan. 8, 2012. According to a news release, the goal is for groups as small as one or as large as 100 to walk one perimeter mile of the city, "praying for spiritual protection, political wisdom, and economic prosperity in the year ahead."
Mesa Prayer Walk founder Brant D. Baker, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, said it's a great way to start the year.
"And alongside all the good being done through church food pantries, homeless shelters, and literacy programs, undergirding our city in prayer is one of the most important things people of faith can be about," Baker said in the release.
To sign up your church, visit www.mesaprayerwalk.org. On that website you can also learn more about prayer walking, purchase optional T-shirts for the event, and interact with one another through a community forum.
RationalHuman posted at 11:26 am on Mon, Sep 19, 2011.
2 things need said about this ignorant debauchery:
1 - praying is NOT one of the most "important things", at least not to sane people.
If you pray for your children instead of taking them to the doctor when they're sick, you go to prison for child abuse and neglect. So much for prayer.
And number 2 - what did Jesus have to say about praying in public in front of others?
Matthew 6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.