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06-19-2012, 07:12 AM
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| Registered User  Member Since: Oct 2008 Location: In Maryland
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| Prayer at public meetings I have a question... might as well bring it up now and here.... You all probably know I'm in an election now to be president of an HOA board.... Here's my question.... I'd really like to open all the meetings with a prayer and a pledge of allegience.... It hasn't been done for over a decade.... I know we need prayer to be successful.... there's no question in my mind about that.... Do you think that saying I want to open all the meetings with prayer would be misconstrued as a ploy to get votes? I don't want to diminish the importance of my Lord in all my decisions. what do you think? 
__________________ God says: I created your innermost being. I knit you together in your mother's womb... you are fearfully and wonderfully made... don't ever forget that." Psalm 139:13-14 |
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06-19-2012, 07:19 AM
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| Fool for Christ  Member Since: Jan 2007 Location: Mechanicsville, MD
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06-19-2012, 07:23 AM
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| I am so very blessed  Member Since: Feb 2004 Location: Happyville
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| If you want to pray, then hold a Prayer Meeting. If you want to hold a HOA meeting, then hold an HOA meeting. Don't mix the two.
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06-19-2012, 07:26 AM
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| Obama destroyed America  Member Since: Mar 2005 Location: Silence!! I throw shoe at you!
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 It's business not a sporting event. People don't say prayers or the pledge at work before meetings.
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06-19-2012, 07:56 AM
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06-19-2012, 08:27 AM
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| Then you are all saying no.... don't do it.... Only Zguy is in favor of prayer before the meeting begins.... and I should let people know before I am elected if I want to put an invocation on the agenda.... An invocation opens all commissioner meetings and legislative meetings.... why not an HOA of 4400 homes? Oh and by the way... I do pray at work and I do discuss the Bible with the lady who works with me in the office. Schools were better before we took prayer away.... The question was.... Do you think people would think I am advocating prayer to get elected?
__________________ God says: I created your innermost being. I knit you together in your mother's womb... you are fearfully and wonderfully made... don't ever forget that." Psalm 139:13-14 Last edited by hotcoffee; 06-19-2012 at 08:37 AM. |
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06-19-2012, 08:55 AM
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| Soul Probe  Member Since: Apr 2007 Location: at the mountaintop
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06-19-2012, 08:59 AM
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06-19-2012, 09:19 AM
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I don't want to diminish prayer....Do you think people would think I am advocating prayer to get elected? Never mind.... I guess it doesn't really matter. The only thing that does matter is what The Lord wants anyway... nothing I say or do will change that.... luckily....
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06-19-2012, 09:31 AM
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