Hopefully you’ve heard of the saying “Bedside Baptist” before.   If you haven’t, here’s what it essentially means: a person who chooses to stay home on Saturday or Sunday (whichever day they’re suppose to be worshipping) and remain in the bed and watch TV service from the comforts of their own home.  However, thanks to our TV evangelist, it is no longer an embarrassment to say you stay home for church.  It’s just simply your choice..

Now I’m familiar with Bedside Baptist, but this right here is new to me.  I mean, I don’t know what to say.  Will this encourage the Bedside Baptist folk to get up, run out and get prayed for and then head back home?  How do you give someone a drive-thru prayer? What do you say?  How do you know what to pray for?  Does it matter what religion you are?  What kind of person is doing the praying?  Can just anyone pray for you?   How do you qualify to pray for someone?  Wait…are there any qualifications? Does God listen to everybody’s prayer regardless of what they’re praying for? Is there a time limit on how long you can pray for someone?

Am I missing something here?  What is the point being made?  That you don’t have to stand in a prayer line at church to wait for the minister to pray for you?  That you can just stay seated in your car and we’ll come to you?  If you read my “Hurry Up Already” blog, do you think they’re faster than McDonalds’ Drive-Thru? Is it open 24-hours?  Is this what “getting a prayer through means?”

There was actually an article posted on the Internet written by Christian Piatt on May 13, 2012 called “Drive-Thru Prayers to Drive-In Church: Is Religion Lost?” Good Question I say.  

WWJT?  (what would Jesus think)