Q and A

Question from Email:  From a church Singles Group

Hi,

We all went to lunch yesterday.  (Your seminars are always a topic at all our events/ meetings since you gave it last month).  Someone made the comment that you had stated that the man and woman (courting couple) should not pray together because that is a form of intimacy. You were probably misquoted.  Can you please clarify?  This question will probably come up again in our next session, but we can't wait.

 

Thanks.

T. R. (Wash., D.C.)

 

 

Yup!  I said it, but the quote is slightly off.  (By the way, this did not originate with me, but with a well-known pastor I used to work under.)  He said men and women should not be "prayer partners," praying together for long periods of time about personal subjects.  (Now, be cautious with the rest of this statement.)  He said there is very little distance between the intensity of prayer and the intensity of other kinds of intimacy,which makes it easy to cross the line.  (Hisrendition was slightly more graphic.) OK?  OK. Boy, you guys are tough! 

 

Couples should certainly pray for each other, and about their relationship.  It is the "together" part that should be limited.  Let's remember that Satan is out to get you any way he can.  If one thing doesn't work, he will just try another.