The other day I emailed a few questions to Rick Warren, who has accepted Barack Obama’s invitation to give the inauguration prayer, and he’s now responded. Warren says, among other things, that the invitation was “completely unexpected” and that “several dozen” other pastors would do “a better job.”It’s apparent that he knows a great deal about inaugural prayers -- he actually has a binder containing them all -- and he says he’s going to reread them all before he settles on what shape his will take.
I don’t think he’ll be backing away from praying in the name of Jesus. On the other hand, he won’t be using his prayer to preach or take a political stance -- "that’s the fastest way to kill a prayer," he says.
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[by Terry Eastland - The Weekly Standard]
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