Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: johnw@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Warren) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Use of God's money Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 91 06:47:52 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Space Science Labs Lines: 20 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jjk18642@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (James J Kristofer) writes: >I don't think I should not pray at a restaurant just because I think it >will make someone else feel less right about themselves. What better 'streetcorner' is there than a restaurant? I suppose the answer is TV. I admire your attitude of not worrying what other people think (I'm not being flip), but Jesus didn't say: "Don't pray on the streetcorner, unless you feel that you're not doing it with the motive of showing people how spiritual you are." He said: "Don't pray on the streetcorner." I don't mean to sound fundamentalist about this issue, but I think Jesus knew human nature pretty well and knew how our motives could get corrupted, our attention diverted, etc. So he said to do it in a closet. (My apparent 'fundamentalism' ends here: I don't actually pray in a closet.) John Warren "He'll come down make you feel alright, Like a thief in the middle of the night... In the middle of the ... night!" -- Larry Norman