Please expand where you think I said that that; again, all I am saying is that whether I pray myself or my entire church (or the entire world for that matter) prays for me, it will not change the outcome one bit. God is not running an election counting phone calls like on american idol; one prayer means as much as many. So while knowing someone else is praying for me might well make me feel better in a particular situation, I just do not see any further benefit.Interesting that your interpretation of Paul or Peter asking for the brothers and sisters to pray for them was just so they would feel a bit better. Presumably they prayed for others so they would feel better too. Guess I didn't know that Paul and Peter thought prayers didn't "work".
Now there may be exceptions to this for situations in which people are lost and do not seek the answers themselves, but the conversation leading up to my post was generally referring to persons praying for friends and others in need of healing who presumably were doing the same for themselves.
edited to add:
This, just for fun:
http://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=whi ... I+pray+for
And again, I have said I do not see anything wrong with praying for someone else; but when we have people organizing a prayer circle or calling up friends and asking for prayers, I do think they are believing the more prayers, the more likely I/we will get what I request.
So let me end this with one question to you; what do you see as the purpose of requesting a group of people to pray for something rather than just praying yourself. I understand you think it is something urged by the bible, but what do you see as its purpose?
