Kosta, this is just below you. :) In order to prevent you from posting exactly what you did, I was very careful in how I worded my post. I very carefully distinguished between "praying with" and praying side by side. I realize you're not an evangelist, but I gave you credit for knowing that those of us who are frequently pray FOR the lost in their presence, i.e. we pray "with them".
Praying side by side, which is obviously what MLG was talking about, is different. In the normal sense (not like the visitation example I gave you) that would mean being of a like faith. MLG and I agree that there are many Protestant faiths that are not like faiths to our own. She and I have no disagreement on this.
Praying with someone is no different to me then praying "side by side" with those who are not in the Church.
Praying for all mankind is not praying "with" maknind.
Praying side by side, which is obviously what MLG was talking about, is different. In the normal sense (not like the visitation example I gave you) that would mean being of a like faith
Huh, and pray tell how like" or "unlike" must such a faith be for you to pray together? And who determines the limits of such "likeness" or "unlikeness?" You? Your pastor? Your church? Fox News? If Protestant denominations are not "essentially" different enough not to pray together, then why have them? Why do they exist? Does it matter wat people believe and preach?
Apparently, you must dismiss some theological differences as irrelevant, because Protestants hop from one assembly to another as if they were social clubs or political parties. One day you are this; another you are that. Then there is a mix, a little Baptist and a little Calvinist...or the cath-all phrase "as long as they call on Christ as their Savior..." oh boy!
You can dismiss the issue of free will with non-Calvinist majority in SB assemblies as insignificant. You can even dismiss your deep disagreements wiht Apostolics' theology even Mariology, the "idolatry" (imagine praying with "idolaters!"), and so on until you have narrowed down our "likeness" to two things: Holy Trinity and Two Natures of Christ. As long as a "church" recognizes these two elements, we ca pray together, right? The rest of our beliefs are irrelevant, right?
Would you pray with the Jews who deny, even curse Christ (after Jamnia)? Or Hindus? Or Muslims? Or Buddhists? How about other "Christian" cults like LDS and JW who call on Chirst as their Savior? How about "Jews for Christ?" Is this not all your own arbitrary decision? Does that not make your faith and everything else your own arbitrary product? To me it seems that way. Made to your satisfaction, to your liking, just the way you understand it, how you like it, see it or prefer it? It seems Protestantism is all about me, myself and I, imo, FK.