This issue has been on my mind for quite some time especially now that GKY Singapore has started a bi-monthly prayer meeting. At issue is how to prevent the floor for individual prayer request from becoming into a gossip proliferation event. This is how I observed it happened. In the past cell-group meetings (not in GKY), whenever the floor was open for prayer request submission, quite a number of the prayer requests mentioned were not by the first person. For example, someone will say, "Please pray for our friend ... so and so, who is struggling with ... this and that." It was not always clear whether this was mentioned in the cell-group at the individual's request. I also observed, there were people who habitually mention such second hand prayer requests, but rarely brought up personal ones. In my opinion, individual prayer request forum should be opened with clear guidelines so that it will not turn into a sanctioned gossiping in the name of praying for one another.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Prayer Request
This issue has been on my mind for quite some time especially now that GKY Singapore has started a bi-monthly prayer meeting. At issue is how to prevent the floor for individual prayer request from becoming into a gossip proliferation event. This is how I observed it happened. In the past cell-group meetings (not in GKY), whenever the floor was open for prayer request submission, quite a number of the prayer requests mentioned were not by the first person. For example, someone will say, "Please pray for our friend ... so and so, who is struggling with ... this and that." It was not always clear whether this was mentioned in the cell-group at the individual's request. I also observed, there were people who habitually mention such second hand prayer requests, but rarely brought up personal ones. In my opinion, individual prayer request forum should be opened with clear guidelines so that it will not turn into a sanctioned gossiping in the name of praying for one another.
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Well, it's pretty hard to prevent that from happening. It can be very sensitive. The only thing that we can do is probably just to not adding unnecessary stuff to that person's submission.
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