'And in that day ye shall ask Me nothing.
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My name, He will give it you.
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name:
ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.'
(John 16:23-24)
Hello there,
If the subject of this thread is deemed to be inappropiate, and deleted, I will understand. I do not know where else to place it on the forum.
Yesterday I watched the inauguration ceremony of the President of the USA, and listened to the prayers offered at the invocation and Benediction. and found myself thinking back to the cathedral remembrance service held after 9/11 in 2001, when the then President read from Romans 8.:35-39
'Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, -------------- '
* The President read up until the last seven vital words, - 'which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'. Those were omitted.
* Yesterday, in the prayers offered, I do not recollect the name of Christ Jesus our risen Lord being mentioned (if I am wrong please tell me). The prayers were not offered in His Name. Yet, He is the way the truth and the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by Him.
* I can only think, that on both occasions, at the 9/11 remembrance service and at the Inauguration it was because those represented were of mixed faiths, and that by naming the Lord Jesus Christ, a large number of those that heard would have been alienated by it, being of other faiths. Yet that does not excuse it, does it?
Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My name, He will give it you.
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name:
ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.'
(John 16:23-24)
Hello there,
If the subject of this thread is deemed to be inappropiate, and deleted, I will understand. I do not know where else to place it on the forum.
Yesterday I watched the inauguration ceremony of the President of the USA, and listened to the prayers offered at the invocation and Benediction. and found myself thinking back to the cathedral remembrance service held after 9/11 in 2001, when the then President read from Romans 8.:35-39
'Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, -------------- '
* The President read up until the last seven vital words, - 'which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'. Those were omitted.
* Yesterday, in the prayers offered, I do not recollect the name of Christ Jesus our risen Lord being mentioned (if I am wrong please tell me). The prayers were not offered in His Name. Yet, He is the way the truth and the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by Him.
* I can only think, that on both occasions, at the 9/11 remembrance service and at the Inauguration it was because those represented were of mixed faiths, and that by naming the Lord Jesus Christ, a large number of those that heard would have been alienated by it, being of other faiths. Yet that does not excuse it, does it?
Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris
