Pre-Service Prayer in Apostolic Churches?

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Originally Posted by theoldpaths

A hearty-amen!

Paul asked that prayer be made for him that he would be given utterance. Usually in church, the Pastor is going to preach.

There are so many needs that could be prayed for in a pre-service prayers such as...

- God would draw lost visitors to the service
- God would help the song leader , worshippers, and muscicians would be annointed and would lead in the worship with clean hearts, spirits, etc
- That the people of God would worship God in Spirit and in Truth
- That God would give the Pastor the message that needs to be preached, and that God would annoint him, for it is the annointing that breaks the yoke, that he would be given utterance, etc
- That God would lead sinners to repentance, etc
- That God would fill someone with the Holy Ghost

The list just goes on and on!

Those prayers can be made at any time too. It can be made 2 hours before. It can be made during church service, at the end. It can be made during any individuals personal prayer time.

Im all for prayer meetings and even pre-service prayer, but the arguments being made don't support the assertion that this is to be mandatory for members.

I'd say it's mandatory for all saints to be praying often, but to tell them they have in order to be a member here you have to pray at this time on this day JUST BEFORE the service is wrong