This movement has been a long time in coming but it is here. Some problems are caused by sloppy vocabulary and too many "church" words. Words that mean nothing to anyone and everything to everyone, prayer is among those words.
Take Baptism, it means what you want it to mean. People can talk about baptism all day long and never be talking about the same thing. Church is another abused and misused word. We go to church, we do church, we meet in the church and we even use it to describe the lost (unchurched). Any organization with the word church in its name is considered religious. Prayer is another bad word. We pray, we pray for those whom we have a duty to pray for, pray tell what are you thinking and etc. When someone is leading (?) public prayer often he (or she) is preaching but no one mentions it because it is prayer.
Prayer is talking to God, nothing more and nothing less. You cannot talk to God with an empty mind without words either spoken or thought. Meditative prayer is an oxymoron and cannot exist in reality.
It is too late to rid ourselves of church words but it might help if Christians would change their vocabulary. Maybe then the world will know what we mean.
Substitute "talking with God" for the word prayer. How does one do Meditative talking to God?
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
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