Comments on: Praying at people.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:56:35 +0000

Call it what you want. I call it parenting. This works great on kids. If you can get them crying before the Amen, you WIN!

By: Alleycat

Alleycat — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:43:29 +0000

Do you mean “GAHD” as in Elwood Blues? “We’re on a mission from GAHD.”

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 01:50:14 +0000

That was a hilarious mental image!

By: PilgrimAflame

PilgrimAflame — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:43:25 +0000

I have a friend who pronounceds "GAWD" normally, except when he prays. Then he takes on some accent and says it more like "GAHD." I don't think he's being pretentious, but it's certainly interesting to wonder why that happens.

By: Sheri

Sheri — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 01:00:00 +0000

While eating out one time, there was family sitting next to us who had a couple small kids. As soon as they sat down the kids started downing fries as quickly as they could. The dad started their meal time prayer asking God to bless their food, especially the food already in their mouths. It was quite funny.

By: katie

katie — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:40:00 +0000

I think that is also known as gossiping through prayer~

By: Desi

Desi — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:38:06 +0000

DOOD!
I hate this! i have been on the receiving end from a youth pastor! ugghh have the guts say what you need to say without hiding behind prayer.

By: thoughtriver

thoughtriver — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:53:05 +0000

so hilarious my mom did this to me and my sister all the time.

By: Laughing until it hurts, or, maybe laughing because it hurts « With the kids

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:35:03 +0000

[...] Praying at People is also funny, but has a serious side to it. Using prayer to manipulate people is “not cool” as Jon says on his blog. This has happened to me a lot. The worst experience I had with this was when I was about 14-years old at camp one summer. Saying that she wanted to pray for me, an adult leader took me aside to tell me that God had told her I wasn’t really saved. It caused me quite a lot of turmoil and haunted me well into adulthood. Although I had a little chuckle reading that post, it pricked at that scar. [...]

By: ChelseaN

ChelseaN — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:19:38 +0000

Totally guilty of doing this with my husband