So, you believe intercessory prayer for others is unnecessary or heretical? How about when the pastor leads the congregation in prayer, or prays at a wedding or funeral?
If the person is praying to God, God will hear him. It's irrelevant whether the prayer is for someone else or yourself.
So, you believe intercessory prayer for others is unnecessary or heretical? How about when the pastor leads the congregation in prayer, or prays at a wedding or funeral?
John 11.
42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
You can believe what Jesus said or you can believe the tradition of men.
Often when the pastor, or anyone else “leads in prayer” they are simply preaching with a “prayer lock” on their hearers ears. It can be manipulative and unauthentic. Why not just lead in the LORD’s prayer ? It is easy to memorize, always appropriate, like Kaddish, and he can’t go astray with his emotions and imagination. Of course, he could substitute other scriptural prayers as well.