Prayer

[kyredneck]

Before we go any further, please tell me exactly to what you are referring when you assigned me to the class of 'you people.'

Those that believe the mission of the Church is to populate heaven. Thus, 'you people' have a 'Great Commission'.

In reality the Church has zilch to do with populating heaven. The Church's mission is to tend to and feed the sheep that He has purchased with His own blood. Period. The Church doesn't make sheep, it feeds them.

 

[kyredneck]

....Our salvation is an ongoing affair, not a one time event....

I should have included here that the preaching of the gospel is an essential component of the ongoing affair of our salvation. That is the way God has intended it to be. He gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater.

For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God`s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe. 1 Cor 1:21

........and that saving is NOT a 'one time event', it is an ongoing affair.

 

[Salty]

I am sure we have all heard a preacher say "God does not hear the prayer of an unsaved person, except for the prayer of salvation.

Do you believe that this is actual theology.

If this is true, than why are there some prayers that seem to have been anwered for the unsaved.

I think we are getting off the OP, can we stray back to the original questions...

 

[SBCPreacher]

It'd be interesting to hear these preachers explain the events in Acts 10 concerning Cornelius, especially 10:31, "And said [Peter], Cornelius, thy prayer is heard...."

Let me further define my first post. God promises to hear the prayers of His children - the saved. Although I don't know of any promise to hear the prayers of the lost, God is God and He can answer any prayer He wants. If He chooses to answer the prayer of a lost person (Cornelius) that's up to Him.

But I think it's also important to point out that Cornelius was seeking God, not just his own interests. Maybe that made all the difference.

(Just my humble, but accurate, opinion.)