'In Christ Jesus our Lord'

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Hello there,

If the subject of this thread is deemed to be inapproriate, 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. 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

 

[Brad Huber]

You may have missed it, but at the congressional prayer a couple of days ago, they mentioned at the end of the prayer.... amen and awoman. It was not a error that anyone "oops" over. Those in public prayers in DC congress are often done by those with little faith or knowledge of the true God. True sheep in wolves clothing.

 

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Hello @Brad Huber,

Thank you for responding.

I only saw the inauguration, and heard the prayers uttered there. As to the prayers spoken in congress, I know nothing of the faith held by those who officiate there, and only God can know their hearts. I have no wish to be their judge, or the judge of any man, for I am not capable of making a righteous judgement, only God can do that.

Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris