[Terriergal]

Ingrid Schlueter has done a great job covering this controversy. I posted a piece of hers in the blog/chat section of FR:

An Update on the NDP and the Battle over Jesus Name (National Day of Prayer NDOP) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2016411/posts

She has a radio broadcast on this issue here: http://www.crosstalkamerica.com/shows/2008/04/national_day_of_prayer_task_fo.php

[HoosierHawk]

One thing's for sure. There's no shortage of whiners in this country.

Even a National Day of Prayer ends in controversy.

[alpha-8-25-02]

“The National Day of Prayer Task Force offices admitted to Crosstalk’s producer that Jesus’ name was omitted because it was a “Jewish/Christian event”, and they didn’t want to offend the Jewish participants. Host Vic Eliason noted that in Israel, the name of Jesus is widely used in relation to the Christian holy sites and that Jews would hardly expect Christians not to mention Christ’s name in their prayers. The Zacharias ministry blamed the omission of Christ’s name on the Task Force’s guidelines that did not allow the name of Jesus.”

I listen to “let my people think” often and i am suprised that ravi fell to the guidelines and just declined the honory chair!

[MHGinTN]

Ping, brother!

[Ottofire]

Boy, all this ecumenicalism just gives me the warm fuzzies!

...and is so ignorant of the nature of God. Only one faith can be right, and all the others are false and lead to Hell.

Does God wish for us to stand side by side with those that preach falsely, and lead others to His justice and damnation? Any that preach ecumenicalism are willing to let those in desperate need of the Gospel to eternally burn, and are ignoring the Lord and His Great Commission to their shame.

[Buggman]

Hopefully you guys will forgive the name-dropping, but I happen to know Ravi and did an internship at his ministry a few years ago. This doesn't mean that I can speak for him, but I hopefully can explain his position.

Ravi has always prioritized his life and ministry to reach the maximum number of people. He very carefully avoids going into certain shall-we-say controversial subjects in his teachings because he has a focus on reaching as broad a group as possible, and emphasizing certain theological subjects would get in the way of that.

I suspect that's what's happening here. Ravi isn't denouncing Yeshua; he's just not going to risk derailing the dialog by insisting on putting His Name into a communal prayer and thus making it needlessly exclusionary to the Jewish participants. His long-term goal, to introduce people to the Messiah and remove barriers to them accepting Him, remains the same.

Shalom!

[LiteKeeper]

It would be an interesting exercise to look at all of the prayers in the New Testament, and count the number that end with “in Jesus’ Name.”

[Mike Darancette]

So the Jews and Muslims will be having their own celebration together? LOL