Prayer at home (Public prayer)

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>> RALPH

>> "...not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of SOME, but

>> encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching"

>> (Hebrews 10:25, my caps in SOME).

>>

>> This verse does not support praying in public, either. It simply mentions

>> the fact that SOME meet together, obviously not in public. And it doesn't

>> say they the pray together, only that they meet together. And the

>clincher

>> against today's prayer-pushers, is the last phrase: "...as you see the

>Day

>> approaching." The date of Hebrews is uncertain, as is the author, but it

>is

>> definitely 1st century. Ask your prayer-pushers just when in the 1st

>> century the great Day occurred. It didn't, of course, and all those who

>met

>> together in the 1st century, waiting for Jesus to come again, are long

>dead.

>>

>> Doesn't that tell us that prayer is useless?

>>

>IAN

>Did Jesus ever pray in public?


RALPH
I checked in concordances under prayer and found no place that he ever did.
He didn't even say grace when he fed the 5,000 on 2 fishes and 5 loaves.
But others might know more about this. Thanks.

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