LOL

Pernell Goodyear posts about his friend Bill posting about how "annoying" (personally I would use the word ridiculous) typical evangelical prayers sound....

"There's this strange evangelical prayer jargon where the word Lord or Jesus [or both] occurs at least once in every sentence, accompanied somehow by the word 'just' . . . remarkably irritating. It's a wonder at times our prayers are not followed by a voice from heaven saying 'Shut up for a minute'. Prayer is simply conversation, right. So then if we followed the same format, a conversation over coffee might sound like this:

Bill, we’re just really thankful that you are here, Bill
that you are home, friend Bill,
that we can come to your home Bill
with thanksgiving sweet Bill,"

Please, please go read the rest of the post here.



I know I'm guilty of it, I hear myself doing it, and have actually had to stifle a laugh about it during a prayer.

Conversation...conversation...have to work on that.

How strange we Christians are.