Comments on: Medical Prayer Requests

By: Waldo L

Waldo L — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:29:51 +0000

There’s this old guy at my church, bless his heart, who feels the need to share his prayer requests in detail during his turn to pray in the “open prayer” session. Like he’s talking to us and not God, ‘cuz God already knows that a big, hairy black widow spider crawled across his hand and he’s on blood thinner which would make the poison act that much faster; he’s been on this blood thinner for a long time, and some of these people don’t know but last month in a choir practice I started bleeding and had to get the nurse-who’s-a-2nd-soprano-on-the-first-pew-of-the-choir-loft to clean up his bloody spill, so it’s a good thing the spider left him alone, Amen.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:50:35 +0000

I was in a church once and they were asking prayer for this girl who ran off and got married, like it was a bad thing. The pastor goes, and I quote, “From what I understand, they went away and eloped, so let’s pray for that family.” I couldn’t help but give a face.

But, prayer requests are the most depressing part of the service. I always wished they’d have a blessings part of the service, just to counteract it all.

By: tigersharksteph

tigersharksteph — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:47:47 +0000

Oh man, i remember this. My grandpartens church still does this…and im pretty sure im on that list under “social disease”…every wednesday…and sunday night. I think i need prayer for dealing with others peoples prayers that involve me, hahahaha.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:03:58 +0000

philip jenkins made an observation that the reason many western christians have so much trouble with faith is because of western, modern medicine. not that western, modern medicine isn’t good; he reminds us we should be grateful for it. but, he remarks, its hard to believe that God works in our lives when we’ve relegated him to just our salvation.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:32:11 +0000

I once heard them referred to as “organ recitals.”

By: lwolford

lwolford — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:07:42 +0000

I’ve heard these called “organ recitals.” You know, my heart ain’t right, my liver quivers, and my spleen is green.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:01:40 +0000

Not to be forgotten: gossip in the form of prayer requests. Love those.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:46:11 +0000

JTR: Not funny. How can you mock ppl’s blog posts? I guess hate will do that to you. You are sad.

By: JTR

JTR — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:48:48 +0000

Not funny. How can you mock ppl’s prayers?! I guess hate will do that to you. You are sad.