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Faith and prayer

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Bar business and the church


In a small town in America, a person decided to open up his bar business, which was right opposite to a church. The church and its congregation started a campaign to block the bar from opening with petitions and prayed daily against his business.

Work progressed. However, when it was almost complete and was about to open a few days later, a strong lightning struck the bar and it was burnt to the ground.

The church folk were rather smug in their outlook after that, till the bar owner sued the church authorities for $ 2million on the grounds that the church through its congregation & prayers was ultimately responsible for the demise of his bar shop, either through direct or indirect actions or means.

In its reply to the court, the church denied all responsibility or any connection that their prayers were reasons to the bar shop's demise. In support of their claim they referred to the Benson study at Harvard that inter-cessionary prayer had no impact !

As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the paperwork and at the hearing and commented:

"I don't know how I am going to decide this case, but it appears from the paperwork, we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer and we have an entire church and it's devotees that doesn't."


THIS IS A STORY AND CAN HOLD GOOD FOR ANY RELIGION AND PRAYER AND NOTHING TO HURT ANY
CHRISTIAN FAITH .
 
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Good one Akura ji,

It's always a matter of convenience when it comes to faith in GOD , isn't it !
As shown in some of the movies , even if GOD comes down amidst us , we would expect some miracles to confirm that he is GOD for sure !
A childlike faith in GOD is almost lost and dies down towards the end of human existence , a sad truth - Appreciate the good moral underlying the above msg!
 
what a load of meaning. Great message. Did it happen really or a story. Judge's version speaks the profoundity in the text.
Nice and thanks for bringing out such.
 
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