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Originally Posted by Ohio
Here's the first point of refutation: No place in the book, or in church history for that matter, is the Recovery practice of public "pray-reading" of handouts endorsed.
Here's another: the phrase "pray-reading," to the best of my knowledge, is never mentioned in the book. It is a Recovery invention, with no support in church history.
Even Graver's sub-title says: "... the Intimate and Vital Relationship between God's Word and Prayer." All Christians would agree with that, eh?
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I was in the FTTA when "PSRP" (which I *think* was Pray Sing Read Pray-Read ... but, like RADAR or SCUBA became it's own term) was introduced to accompany Br Lee's exhortations to dive into to High Peak of the Divine Revelation. While we cheered it and sang about it and testified about it, there was a lot of private "this isn't really praying over the Ministry like we pray over the Bible" talk to those who were troubled at the prospect of... "praying over the Ministry like we pray over the Bible." Point is, it was dubious and had to be taken with a grain of salt even by the participants, yet no one really said "hey, this seems excessive!" Not in public, anyway.
Eventually "PSRP" became kind of an inside joke brothers would use to razz one another. As is, "yo, man, you seem mad. Maybe you need to PSRP that." Akin to "yo, bro, y u mad? TURN TO YOUR SPIRIT!"
The main benefit of PSRP was to memorize long banners and outlines with long, precisely-written paragraphs so we could stand at the mic and repeat it back to much enthusiastic applause.
Quite different than reading the Scripture in an attitude of prayerfulness.