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04-13-2012, 05:50 PM
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Re: Pre Service Prayer!
Why not pray at home before leaving and be prayed up when arriving at church?
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04-13-2012, 10:13 PM
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Re: Pre Service Prayer!
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Originally Posted by hometown guy
Some Churches don’t have pre service prayer and I don’t understand it. I understand that things happen and you can’t always get to church early but I have been to churches and you walk in and its nothing but a social deal before service. How can people contribute to a service if they haven’t found a place to pray. How can people not pray before service and just walk up and play an instrument, praise sing, ect. How can a church have a deep move of God if there not even in tune with him. We need deep pre service prayer that we can get our minds on God and be a help and not a hindrance........ Does your church have pre service prayer or is it one of those social gathering before service when you talk to everyone else except God?
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AT my church the leadership team / praise worship team meet and have a time of prayer together before service. For the saints the before church time is generally one of fellowshipping and I have no problem with that.
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04-13-2012, 10:23 PM
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Re: Pre Service Prayer!
of course you're ok with pre-service gossip, neo pentecostal!
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04-14-2012, 08:04 PM
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Re: Pre Service Prayer!
We have a prayer room, which is a requirement for those on the platform. In addition to preservice prayer int he prayer rooms we have prayer about 5 minutes before service starts around the front of the church. We just started doing this a couple months ago and it has made a tremendous difference in our services.
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04-14-2012, 11:39 PM
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Apostolic Pentecostal
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Re: Pre Service Prayer!
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Originally Posted by kclee4jc
We have a prayer room, which is a requirement for those on the platform. In addition to preservice prayer int he prayer rooms we have prayer about 5 minutes before service starts around the front of the church. We just started doing this a couple months ago and it has made a tremendous difference in our services.
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04-16-2012, 10:31 AM
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Re: Pre Service Prayer!
Great thread and thoughts....
Having been a part of a non pentecostal church growing up, and then a minister within a Trinitarian Pentecostal church before coming into Truth, I've seen so many approaches to pre-service prayer. I think the key is what works for the culture of your church and achieving the best mind set and unity for a worship service that lifts of the Lord and makes an impact on souls. It will be different for each church.
I will tell you this, I never saw pre service prayer that much in any churches like I see in Apostolic churches. It really is a characeristic that is of greater presence in Apostolic churches than others.
I've seen Sanctuary pre-service be very successful. I'm thinking of a Pentecostal church that runs about 3,000 on Sunday nights. The lights are a bit low, but not so dim that a visitor can't see well (been to those churches, was very uninviting). There were signs on the doors from the foyers, as well as ushers at the doors to not only welcome me, but to let me know prayer time was going on. Low music playing... and about 10 minutes before service, someone from the pastoral staff approaches the stage, comes to the mic and closes the prayer time with everyone praying..... and then they have 5 minutes before service, lights come up... music starts to play, and anyone in the foyer comes on in. People welcome one another, fellowship, and the band is playing... I really liked that atmosphere.
I've also been to smaller churches where they had prayer rooms. This helped is the band needed to run over something last minute, if there was something needing to be done in the sanctuary, etc. Also, the band and singers prayed together before service.
One key that I've always loved in all churches is when the band begins to play a few minutes before service. That helps me get my mind on starting service just as well as praying does. It helps to set the atmosphere, and I think that's what most on here are looking for.
If we wait till preservice prayer to do business with God, then there are issues anyway. It's all about focusing and getting ready for the service... and preservice prayer isn't necessarily the only way to do that.
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04-16-2012, 11:03 AM
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Re: Pre Service Prayer!
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Originally Posted by Arphaxad
Why not pray at home before leaving and be prayed up when arriving at church?
:dogyrun
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