Pastor tells congregation why he prayed for Trump

[GWH]

Three times a week, and you?

[weirdflexbutok]

@GWH

Three times a week, and you?

See above. Did you bring your vacuum cleaner?

[tnt]

Why would trump ask the pastor to pray for HIM? Instead of say, HIM Praying FOR the victims of the mass shooting?

[weirdflexbutok]

A call like Trump’s to any church on the planet is downright offensive. He’s lucky that they took the high road and only offered an apology to congregants, many of whom found the man morally disgusting and a representation of the opposite of Christian belief, afterward.

[tnt]

@GWH

I’m sure the pastor will apologize for God’s will being done through our president. You know, because that’s what we pray for.

How about for praying for trump instead of praying for the victims of a mass shooting?

[weirdflexbutok]

I pray for Trump every day. Those prayers are never answered.

I’m tempted to believe that there is no God, after seeing what Trump has done to many who profess to believe in a Christian God, but I just figure that this is another test of faith.

Either that or mass hypnosis.

[GWH]

Who says you can’t do both?

[weirdflexbutok]

Trump does.

Explicitly.

[NuffSaid]

I wrote nothing in terms of “defeating Trump”.

I simply called out that there’s a good possibility the pastor was not pleased that Trump crashed his service.

[GWH]

So he’s said, “don’t pray for the victims of mass shootings.”

Link.

[blueapplepaste]

@GWH

I’d be of the same opinion had this been Obama. Had this been any other Joe coming off the street, prayers would be poured over him. Status is a figment of our imaginations in the eyes of God. The grumblers here are the same that would gnash teeth at the thought of extending the service 10 minutes because someone was getting saved at the alter call, causing them to arrive at Denny’s during the height of the lunch crowd.

Same reaction about Obama? Give me a break. You guys attacked him over mustard and color of his suit. Everything he did was always scorned as a photo op to feed his ego.

HadObama waltzed into a church and onto stage in the middle of the service and left after getting a prayer and photos you would have pilloried him.

Must. Defend. Trump.

It’s amazing the mental gymnastics you guys are willing to do for your lord savior Trump.

[weirdflexbutok]

No, he’s said, bring your people together to pray only for me.

Link above.

[GWH]

If he’d come into our church during his term, we’d have certainly prayed for him. Still will. You guys aren’t seeing the forest for the trees.

[weirdflexbutok]

@GWH

If he’d come into our church during his term, we’d have certainly prayed for him. Still will. You guys aren’t seeing the forest for the trees.

If something that would never happen happened, we’d do something that would make us look good.

Okay.

[GWH]

It’s for the glory of God, not our own.

[NuffSaid]

I understand that your church would have received Obama with open arms, but @blueapplepaste was discussing that if Obama went to a church unannounced, a thread would have been started here where every Republican would have vilified him for doing so.

[weirdflexbutok]

We’ve called out people in our church when they show up for political or selfish purposes. Maybe our honesty sometimes gets in the way of God’s teaching. We ask for forgiveness afterward. Our lunch buffets remain fantastic, but that’s how things roll in Chicago.

[WuWei]

@weirdflexbutok

Twice a week. As a teenager, five times a week to keep one of our priest friends company for his 7 a.m. mass which no one but us ever attended. On occasion, he’d serve us wine as kids at 7 a.m. We’d look at him, he’d nod, and we’d drink. We helped vacuum the church afterward.

You don’t know me and never will.

Save your reflex replies for somebody else who operates on your level.

We’ve called out people in our church

You’re doing it wrong.

[Bodecea]

@GWH

I’d be of the same opinion had this been Obama. Had this been any other Joe coming off the street, prayers would be poured over him. Status is a figment of our imaginations in the eyes of God. The grumblers here are the same that would gnash teeth at the thought of extending the service 10 minutes because someone was getting saved at the alter call, causing them to arrive at Denny’s during the height of the lunch crowd.

Of course…

[weirdflexbutok]

I don’t know your dynamic around here, but I’m sure that the comments of moderators are within the bounds of criticism, right? And if that weren’t the case, then I’d have seen something in the ground rules that I read. Just testing the ice for cracks. Seems from a reaction or two that I should walk on tippy toes lol. Ain’t happening.