Latina Liz: Does Prayer Change God’s Mind?

A wonderful question, one that always manages to evade our easy answers. If we say, “Yes,” then we must contend with further questions: “Why doesn’t prayer always change God’s mind? Why does a good, loving God choose not to act when we seek intervention against some evil?”. If, on the other hand, we say, “No,” then we have a whole other set of questions with which to deal: “Why bother to pray then? What purpose does it serve if not to change circumstances?”

Liz wanders thru this issue in the light of her own family:

When in comes to prayer and “God changing circumstances” I feel the jury is out on that…at least for me. Oh Gosh. To be a church planter/pastor and to have these thoughts are almost blasphemous but I have often wondered…when I pray do things really change?

I commend her entire post to you.

Church Hopping: Week 7: Apex Community Church

Brief update this week. On Sunday we went to the Apex Community Church. After surviving the crush of people between services, we found out the bad news: They had nothing for children Samantha’s age this week. It seems they were between semesters or something. OK, so we figure we’ll just bring her in with us. Instead, we get the good news: They have a family service, called Kids Town, that should be right up her alley. So we do that, and it was good. Samantha was a bit moody for reasons unrelated to church, but the Kids Town service was fun: high energy, singing and dancing, skits, etc. Samantha is at the bottom edge of the targeted age group (grade schoolers), but it was still something she could enjoy.

Don’t know what the main service is like, but we’ll go back at least one more time to check it out.