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Originally Posted by UntoHim
I apologize to my valued and esteemed brother Raptor. I know it seems like I'm just trying to be contrary, but actually I'm trying to speak the truth in love as I know it. It seems to me that you and Sons toGlory! have tried to make the case that pray-reading as it has been practiced in the Local Church is scriptural and healthy, yet you brothers have not been able to make any such case. And I'm here to tell you that there is no such case to be made.
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Well, speaking for myself, I made no such claim. That is, "pray-reading as it has been practiced in the LC is scriptural and healthy." No, while I think an argument for scriptural support can be made, I too feel that in many cases it has fallen into a rote practice in the LC. My testimony about pray-reading is more a personal one - I often do it on my own, but it doesn't fall into any set routine as such. It is just a way to speak the word to myself and the Lord, and through it praise & thank Him, ask questions, pray for things & others, and otherwise get His word into me.
BTW: I don't remember ever doing it corporately here in Scottsdale . . . but there's also nothing against it here that I know of (just as if someone wanted to speak in tongues or do foot-washing). I did witness one brother who tried to introduce it a couple times at a smaller gathering he was running, but it didn't catch on very well.