During congregational prayer, the line between praying for upcoming local church events and prayer becoming the advertisement, is notoriously thin.
Our heavenly Father,
We pray now for the upcoming Gingerbread House Making evangelistic event, which is on 7:30 to 9:00 this Saturday night in the North Hall where we will begin by making Gingerbread Houses and then having a talk from special guest speaker Jane Doe on The Essential Jesus, RSVP tonight to Sarah...
I am absolutely with you on this one.
ReplyDeleteI call them press release prayers.