Date Posted:01:25:12 11/06/04 Sat Author: ChicagoXile Subject: Re: The Numbers Doctrine In reply to:
Andrew S.
's message, "Re: The Numbers Doctrine" on 23:57:41 11/05/04 Fri
This brings to mind the saying: "The beatings will continue until morale improves." Or "The insane numbers emphasis will continue until the numbers improve."
>PECAS, your post is dead on. During my time in UBF I
>never quite understood the Numbers Prayers. Whenever
>I served as prayer servant, someone would hand me a
>list of prayer topics, which always, always included
>praying for 60 worship service attendants and "120
>God's flock of sheep" (bad grammar and all) and 12
>disciples of Jesus and 30 conference attendants and on
>and on... eventually I just accepted it, but sometimes
>our prayers were literally a string of numerical
>demands on God. Good grief. Is there such a prayer
>to be found in the Bible? Did Jesus command us to
>raise 12 disciples just like he had? Did he fervently
>pray that a thousand people would come to hear him
>preach?
>I never understood those prayers at all. One of the
>last straws was when I was directed to pray to "fish"
>(spiritually accost) 150 people in a single summer.
>What a burden.
