Yeah, this'll work...
... I guess praying for more fuel efficient cars, energy efficient public transportation and city planning that makes driving vehicles needless is asking too much....
And the Lord answered the mul ude from on high, saying "Stop driving SUVs, my stupid children. You there, with the F-150! You're not a rancher or a contractor, you work at an insurance company downtown...you don't need a pickup. And you, tubby! You only live 5 miles from work; get your fat ass on a bicycle..."
And the mul ude murmured in discontent, for they did not want to make any effort to solve their problems for themselves.
Farce.
Good luck with that...
People are ing stupid.
Pray for $8 oil, that will solve a lot of problems.
Praying for specific outcomes works about 50% of the time, like flipping a coin.
Yes, with the genocide occuring in Darfur, Im sure the all-mighty will grant OUR wish and lower the price of petroleum so we can afford bigger flat screen tvs.
LOL brilliant post son! and 100% truth. yes the gas prices suck, but people are overreacting with it. if gas is hurting you that bad, then get rid of your big ass gas guzzling vehicle and get something like a hybrid, honda civic, or another small car that gets 30-40mpg.
Don't knock praying before you have tried it.
Several weeks ago, my pastor instructed our church congregation the following way: When you fill up your car with gas, instead of complaining about the expense of it, ask God to give you raises at your places of employment.
I decided to try his advice.
About two weeks after that sermon, I was given an easy, part time, marketing assignment that is earning me an additional $200 per month, minimum
Even better, the project is located on the same retail property where I already work- i.e. it takes me no extra gas to get to it.
Suffice to say, I am going to continue praying.
A post free of cynicism, refreshing. Thanks
Question: What happens to prayers that never get answered? Are some people more worth of having prayers answered than others? What's the criteria?
1. Dunno
2. Yes
3. Pray for the answer.
Exactly! Something like this would better suit his needs...
These people relying on God to decrease fuel prices are just as stupid as those who rely on the government and not themselves.
I love my Saturn.
Yes. Yes they are.
sometimes the answer is no.
But, as for this video.Seriously? Anyway.
Well if I'm God, I don't care about superficial needs like money and gas. Maybe I'll help people with cancer or something. Maybe.
Dear "King of Scotland",
You critized these people, labeling their prayers as a farce <seems like God's call to me>, then you labeled those that critized Obama's prayer as "de able". Based on those observations, was it de able of you to critisize them, or is critizing public prayers okay?
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways"
-Isaiah 55-
http://spurstalk.com/forums/newreply...eply&p=2300136
funny
All prayers get answered- perhaps just not always in the way or timing we expect.
You keep believing that...
I agree with you, but I think if people pray for lower gas prices and are really seeking an answer, God is going to tell them to use alternative methods of transit. If you can afford to throw $40,000 away on that full-size SUV with leather, lace, and fully automated dry-cleaning service, you have no business asking for help from anyone. My daily driver is by no means a fantastic car, but it was built in 1993 and still gets 30+ mpg in the city. Which is why it's my DD.
People should really ask themselves if they NEED to drive all over the countryside. I drive to and from work. That's it. That's the only time I use my car, and I'm considering cutting that out, even though it would take longer to get there on public transit.
That's kind of how it works.
I intended to.
I agree with you that God gave us wisdom and wants us to use it.
I try to be responsible about how I use my gas. For example, I try to run errands on my way home from work instead of going all the way home first.
My car is a 2003 Nissan Xterra that I was blessed to get second hand last year for 8,000.
Before that I had a 1995 Saturn which was second hand even before my mom passed it down to me.
I would still be happily driving that Saturn had not a truck hit me and totalled it.
I had to get a new car quickly and was afraid to get a small car after my accident, thus the SUV now.
All that to say, since God provided me with such a great deal on my car, I know He will provide the funds necessary to keep it running.
Aww Angel its so cute that you really believe those things.
I used to believe in the Easter Bunny and Santa.
What you say in the prayer closet is between you and God. What you pray out in public involves the public. If people go standing outside praying at gas pumps looking ridiculous, they can be called ridiculous.
For too long the evangelical church in the United States has d itself out to the world. For all of the rancor towards the liberal apostate church for its apostasy, the "conservative" evangelical church has done the same things. Where the liberals go off the rails on biblical interpretation relating to sexuality (among other things), the evangelicals go off the rails on biblical interpretation relating to materialism.
And don't you dare start deflecting that criticism. You know damn well it's true. The prosperity gospel is just the most flagrant form of the heresy.
So the farce here is the spectacle of Christians, long encouraged to live out their lives of mindless consumerism by churches that not only fail to admonish them from it, but even cater to it, whose understanding of God now is of a sugar daddy who will make the price of gas go down.
I wonder what that mother in Kenya running an orphanage and school, praying for a few extra dollars so she can adopt another AIDS orphan off the streets of Nairobi, would think of a spectacle of middle-class Americans praying at the pump beside their big SUV's, on the way to their 2500 square-foot air-conditioned homes in the suburbs.
This is the harvested fruit here at the last days of American evangelicalism, of churches with their coffee shops, and their plush theater seats, and their 148 programs, and their "bookstores" consisting of Christian "gifts," luxury Bibles, Danielle Steel-derived fiction, and "Christian living" books predicated on baptizing the consumer's self-obsession, of churches that think secular marketing instead of the gospel is the way to evangelize, and who fashion pastors as CEO's instead of shepherds.
So, yes, FARCE, and if you don't like it, I don't care. Jesus turned over the tables in the temple court for a reason.
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