Last night I, together with about 10-15 of my friends from church, watched the movie "Hotel Rwanda" about the 100 days of Genocide that gripped that country in 1994 and left nearly a million people dead.
Afterward we talked about our reactions to the movie. There was a combined sense of shame, outrage, and powerlessness to do anything about it. In the following discussion prayer was mentioned several times, but I really didn't feel like we had a good grip on what that prayer was for, or even what it was supposed to do.
Why do we pray? Is prayer the cop-out for our inactivity? (Oh, I'll not help you but I will pray for you.) Do we pray just so we'll feel better about a situation? Is prayer ever really about us? These are the questions spawned by our discussion of the movie.
Discuss . . .
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