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Except for one thing...Christians pray in the name of Jesus Christ. If you include Christians as convocators (?) this is what they do. It is how they were instructed to pray by Christ. Just like Jews wearing yamakahs yamakas (beanies!!) you know what I mean!!

Except for one thing...Christians pray in the name of Jesus Christ. If you include Christians as convocators (?) this is what they do. It is how they were instructed to pray by Christ. Just like Jews wearing yamakahs yamakas (beanies!!) you know what I mean!!

The yarmulke thing is an excellent point. Jews believe the Almighty would have men wear them as a sign of humility. Many Christians believe just the opposite. Yet in an ecumenical service, we are not to lambaste the rabbi for wearing his yarmulke, even if it is offensive to us. We just deal with it, in the attitude of ecumenism and (cough cough) tolerance. Yet this attitude never seems to apply to Christians who actually purport to believe what they say. If they are Christian enough to pray unashamedly in the name of Jesus, whom Christians after all are supposed to worship as God, why are they then castigated? Do we then disallow the rabbi his yarmulke, the Buddhist his robes, the Muslim his beard, the feminist goddess worshipper her drum and amulets? Hmmmmm?

I would like to know why a person who believes in Christ should have to modify his prayer for jews or any one else.
If a jew or someone else offers a prayer is it allright fore me to be offended and cause trouble be cause they don't ask in Jesus name like I do? Why does God and Jesus always have to take the hit?