CarpentersApprentice
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Sopranette said:
Bingo!
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Reluctance to Join a Small Group
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Bingo!
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CarpentersApprentice
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David Lamb said:No, CA, I certainly didn't mean that. Gossip is wrong, whether in large churches/groups or small. I just meant (assuming as I did that you were talking about a small church, rather than a group within a church), that if no one ever joined small churches, they would never be anything but small.
David,
Thanks for clarifying.
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CarpentersApprentice
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trustitl said:Why do we feel like we need to share prayer requests with people we hardly know?...
Just to clarify. Are you saying that when we pray for others we should not need to know any of the particulars about their concern?
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CarpentersApprentice said:Just to clarify. Are you saying that when we pray for others we should not need to know any of the particulars about their concern?
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Jesus was the one that said what I quoted. I guess I would ask, "Why do we need to know the details?"
Furthermore, Jesus said "if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven."
We have come up with things like prayer chains and all kinds of terms about prayer. We think fervent prayer is a bunch of people all praying together and mumbling at the same time.
I guess my main point is that we need to consider a lot of things about praying together. Not so much how we are doing it, but why, and in regards to this topic of small groups, why we want others to know our needs.
CarpentersApprentice
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trustitl said:Jesus was the one that said what I quoted.
I am aware of who said it. I just don't know that I agree with your interpretation.
I guess I would ask, "Why do we need to know the details?"
Perhaps so that we might better understand how to pray for a person. ("Confess you sins to one another, and pray for one another.") For example, if a person has an unreasonable, self-centered, or immature ("Lord, help me win the lottery!") request - we probably would not ask for God to grant it.
Furthermore, Jesus said "if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven."
In this verse you reference we see the need for people to talk about their prayer requests. How can one "agree on earth" with another person if they don't know what they are "touching"?
(My concern is not that a person would bear their own soul, but that something said in the supposed confidence of a small group will "somehow" make it's way into the larger community.)
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