Comments on: Unspoken Prayer Requests

By: tigersharksteph

tigersharksteph — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:51:14 +0000

anybody ever get the spoken unspoken from someone else about you. Thats always fun. Its starts with “I have this friend (as they stare directly at you attracting the eyes of everyone else in the room) who is struggling with sin…” And then everyone pats you on the back on your way out, and you get invited to everyones “bible studies”. Yup, fun stuff.

By: Marsh

Marsh — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:23:23 +0000

My old church would go through the spoken requests, and then they’d ask for a show of fingers for the unspokens (which would be tallied – “Okay, how many on the piano side, Brother Andy? 175? Brother Paul – how many on the organ side? 210? That’s, uh, let’s see, 385 this evening.”) The kids were always trying to think of some request or other to inflate the count (in all earnestness).

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:07:42 +0000

I was in a service where a guy’s “smoking habit” got prayed for; when he raised his hand and said, “Unspoken,” the pastor thought he said, “I’m smokin’!”

By: Trina

Trina — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:28:54 +0000

lol Ron! I was just going to say something about that. It amazed me how many unspokens some people had!

By: Ron Bean

Ron Bean — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:01:12 +0000

Did anyone ever hear the “arithmetic unspokens? It went like this:
“I want to add two this week.”
“I want to add four this week and take away two from last week.”

By: James

James — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:44:53 +0000

Is it me, but it seems as if all the references to these “unspoken” requests are about women??? Um, does that say anything?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:42:31 +0000

Thanks again for the memories. It has been a long while since I have been in a fundy church but reading this makes it seem like yesterday. Oh how I used to groan when a special person began with her request. Long and dragged out as if she were the only one with a request.

By: the divine passive

the divine passive — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:34:36 +0000

I was at a church where we had two ladies who would attempt to outdo each other for length of prayer requests. After the first instance (realizing that they were merely letting the Apostle Paul have it for not letting them be preachers) I timed them on my watch. Usually, Mrs. X would go about 5 minutes for her spoken unspoken, and then Mrs. Y would see her and raise her by about 45 seconds. After they were done, nobody in the room had any idea what to pray for, and no one dared to ask for fear of a recapitulation. The pastor spoke to Mrs. X privately about the matter and she left the church! I’d like to say I learned a valuable lesson, but it would be hard to quantify it.

By: Piper

Piper — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:50:05 +0000

I always enjoyed it when, after the prayer request time, we moved into the “bragamony” testimony time. Any fundie or ex-fundie would remember what those were like. My experience with bragamony time was even better than most because even though I didn’t have a baby, I would sit with some friends in
the crying babies” room with the one way glass where moms could look through the window and watch/hear the service but the rest of the auditorium couldn’t hear or see the crying babies. It was most awesome when all the crying babies had fallen asleep and the ladies in the room shifted into a witty mystery science theater 3000 commentary on what was being said. And if the commentary was especially funny and you laughed hard enough, you could make yourself cry- which was just perfect so that when the service was over, folks assumed either you were a worn out new mother or especially moved by what had been shared. Ah yes, those were the days…

By: ClearlyCrystal79

ClearlyCrystal79 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:37:49 +0000

I like the “Guessing Unspoken.” It definitely gave the family something to talk about on the car ride home. “I guess Mrs. Soandso is going through some really hard stuff. I wonder what her unspoken was..?” Insert guesses. LOL.