{"id":20170,"date":"2013-08-27T23:14:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T03:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20170"},"modified":"2013-08-28T15:39:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T19:39:43","slug":"drive-through-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/drive-through-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-through prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, \u201cdrive-thru prayer\u2019; in my headline, I inadvertently diluted the superficiality of the concept.<\/p>\n<p>To be serious: if this is an attempt to employ Chesterton\u2019s <i>unseen hook and an invisible line<\/i> with the intention of reeling in the catch, I am all for it.<\/p>\n<p>If it is the church\u2019s version fast food, pretending to offer nutrition while really peddling artery clogging spiritual fat, then I\u2019m not for it at all.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/08\/27\/georgia-church-offers-drive-thru-prayer-for-worshippers-on-go\/\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A church in northwest Georgia has started offering Sunday prayer services for worshippers on the go.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Cedar Valley Cathedral of Praise on Cleveland Highway in Dalton have been hosting a weekly drive-thru prayer mission Sundays from 2 to 5 p.m. Anne Keith told the Dalton Daily Citizen she&#8217;s been visiting the drive-thru Sunday service for more than a month now, and it&#8217;s become something she looks forward to every week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I start on Wednesday thinking, &#8216;It&#8217;s three more days,&#8217; then &#8216;two more days,'&#8221; Keith said. She added that she finds the service uplifting and that it reinforces her hope.<\/p>\n<p>Church members gather under their building&#8217;s awning to wait for a driver and distribute prayer cloths to visitors. Members say they welcome visitors from all denominations, and visitors are encouraged to come as they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, \u201cdrive-thru prayer\u2019; in my headline, I inadvertently diluted the superficiality of the concept. To be serious: if this is an attempt to employ Chesterton\u2019s unseen hook and an invisible line with the intention of reeling in the catch, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/drive-through-prayer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1685],"tags":[1686],"class_list":["post-20170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-lite","tag-cedar-valley-cathedral-of-praise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}