Praying in public

[Lamb]

When you are out, with say your family, do you pray in public out loud? Or do you maybe bow your heads and silently give thanks for the food you are about to eat? Does it bother you if others do those things?

For me, I might pray privately and I doubt anyone would notice. I have prayed with one of my best friends in public at a restaurant but we don't make a spectacle of ourselves. At least not at that moment! :rotfl:

 

[Krissy Cakes]

When I used to go live with my friend Donna and her husband in California we prayed out loud. I'm not ashamed of what people would think its more about what to say lol. I'm the kind of a person who is a "scared" of prayer. I get scared of praying. Scared that I'm not saying things right. So I'm more of a private prayer person and I know God understands.

 

[psalms 91]

I pray out loud if I am out as I say grace at every meal.

 

[Forgiven1]

We have done both, but mainly out loud.

 

[brinny]

it's out loud, but not "loud" but at a conversational tone......thanking God is a GOOD thing and a joyful thing and it is a "testimony" of sorts.....it's living yer life "out loud", so to speak.....

there are soooooo many who are hungry for God and if they come over and ask you why you prayed out loud or gave thanks, well that's a precious open door to share and minister to them, isn't it?

 

[psalms 91]

Yes it is although I have never had anyone come up to me in public about why I was praying

 

[brinny]

Yes it is although I have never had anyone come up to me in public about why I was praying

wouldn't it be awesome if they did?

 

[psalms 91]

Yes, I would love that it truly would be a wide open door

 

[Lamb]

Yes it is although I have never had anyone come up to me in public about why I was praying

We had a waitress smile at us and she was nice enough to give us time to finish before approaching our table. I think that's the closest I've ever had of anyone coming over to us but no one has asked.

Do you see a lot of people praying in public? I rarely do.

 

[brinny]

Yes, I would love that it truly would be a wide open door

Yes! It's delightful!!! What i find is that there are soooooo many who are hungry for God and may not even realize it, and then they notice you and yer party praying (not loud, just conversationally...not to attract attention, but just in a very natural way) they come over and ask, praise God!

I don't believe there are ANY "accidental" meetings of anyone.....i believe it's arranged by God Himself. We are "witnesses" regardless of where we are, or what we're doing. God is WITH us. He's never back there on a "shelf" somewhere. He's HERE, right in the HERE and NOW.

It is HE Who moooooves when someone sees us giving him thanks at a restaurant, etc.

He is GOOD. He is to be praised and given thanks.

 

[GuusVA]

Well I do pray at conversational tone with my fiance in restaurants and when we go out and do outreach we usually are there with a team and we pray at conversational tone in a circle at street corners or at squares where ever we do outreach.

we don't get a lot of questions about it but when we do we try and give an answer the question will mainly be you dare to pray on the street? how do you do it.

And I don't see a lot of praying in my city on the street as well. but from the couple of thousand inhabitants maybe a 100 are christian. and the sick part is we even split up into two churches --' my church which is interdenominational, no not non denominational , and then the other church which is deeply Pentecostal.

 

[dogs4thewin]

We say it out loud, but not really loud. You do not know if you are not at the table.

 

[Josiah]

When you are out, with say your family, do you pray in public out loud? Or do you maybe bow your heads and silently give thanks for the food you are about to eat? Does it bother you if others do those things?

For me, I might pray privately and I doubt anyone would notice. I have prayed with one of my best friends in public at a restaurant but we don't make a spectacle of ourselves. At least not at that moment! :rotfl:

IF I'm alone or with other Christians whom I know do so pray, I do - together with the others. IF I'm leading, it's short and it's fairly quiet so as to not disturb others. Otherwise, I pray silently.

No, it generally doesn't bother me - although I DO recall these folks at a restaurant in Texas (yeah - I allowed for it being in Texas), this guy prayed SO loud and SO long that I felt a bit embarrassed.... but generally, it not only doesn't bother me, I'm very glad to see it (especially in California where Paganism is the state religion.



Just ME....



Pax



- Josiah

 

[MoreCoffee]

When you are out, with say your family, do you pray in public out loud? Or do you maybe bow your heads and silently give thanks for the food you are about to eat? Does it bother you if others do those things?

For me, I might pray privately and I doubt anyone would notice. I have prayed with one of my best friends in public at a restaurant but we don't make a spectacle of ourselves. At least not at that moment! :rotfl:

Q: When you are out, with say your family, do you pray in public out loud? A: Yes.

Q: Does it bother you if others do those things? A: No.

 

[psalms 91]

Q: When you are out, with say your family, do you pray in public out loud? A: Yes.

Q: Does it bother you if others do those things? A: No.

It bothers me that more dont do it

 

[dogs4thewin]

It bothers me that more dont do it

Why? This is a secular society.

 

[visionary]

Shouldn't our lives whether in public or private be the same? Pray without ceasing. Everything needs prayer. Everyone needs prayer. What a world we would have if we prayed more, more often, about more things than just the food we are about to eat.

 

[psalms 91]

Why? This is a secular society.

Yup and we see the fruits of it every day in the papers

 

[MarkFL]

Obviously I do not pray...at all, but it doesn't bother me one bit if others do in public...this is a person's right and I would never interfere with that.

Yup and we see the fruits of it every day in the papers

And we all know things are just peachy in theistic societies, right? :thinking:

We are far from being secular, in my opinion...we still have kids being taught the supernatural in science classes...just a short drive from where I live. I am told I am not a patriot and that I should get on a plane and leave because I don't believe in a particular god. No...this is not a secular society by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[dogs4thewin]

Yup and we see the fruits of it every day in the papers

um this soceity was FOUNDED secular. Matter of a fact, several of the founding fathers were deists not Christian. If you would like me to define it I will gladly do so as I spent a solid 8.5 months considering myself one last year into early this year.