How do you spell "I couldn't find anyone"? Now I know there were people there. It was the VP debates. And in every crowd is at least one Christian. So was it she couldn't find anyone or she couldn't find anyone worthy?
Maybe there wasn't anyone "worthy". I want to know who I am praying with. If I am going to stand hand-in-hand with someone to pray together that implies we are in solidarity and in agreement. I will pray FOR an unbeliever, I will pray FOR a family in crisis regardless of their beliefs, but if I am to pray WITH someone we better be singing out of the same hymnal, so to speak.
I would pray with you LeBuick. From everything I have read of yours, I have no doubt that you are blood-bought, justified, sanctified and full of the Holy Ghost. Now say that we are fixing to pray and some young feller in a $700 suit walks up and says, "I would like to pray with you." I would want to know a little more about this feller before we go approaching Almighty God in Jesus name! What if he's one of them folks that calls God Father on Sunday and lives like an orphan the rest of the week? Wouldn't you want to know where his heart was? Wouldn't you want to know - as a minimum - that his understanding of Jesus Christ was the same as yours?
I spent 13 years pastoring in a mainline denomination. I could count on one hand the number of colleagues I would pray WITH. That's a sobering thought when you're in a room with hundreds - to use your wording that were not worthy - who were awfully religious but had no relationship with Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
Had this been a pastor quoted here we would admire him for his wisdom.
