Drive-thru Prayer

We have drive-thru pharmacies, fast food restaurants, and banks. It was only a matter of time before there was drive-thru prayer! A church in Arizona now offers such a service. The local newspaper describes it in this way:

You pull up, tell the church members what's on your heart and they pray for you right there, while you are sitting in your car. "This is the first drive through prayer I have ever been to," said Darcel Williams, one driver that came to the prayer drive-thru. "That's why I came. I wanted to see how it was done."

Hmmm. I'm sure that many might think that this is an awful concept- making prayer seem trite or impersonal. But I'm thinking of passages like these:

Brothers, pray for us.

Pray without ceasing.

I desire then that in every place the men should pray...

The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

While the drive-thru may seem crazy, imagine this scenario. Your pastor is working late one night in his office. A stranger needing someone to listen to him and pray for him is walking by. He sees the light on and knocks on the door, introduces himself and begins to tell his story. Would you expect your pastor to refuse to talk with him? Of course not.

I know it is a little bit wacky for someone to drive-thru when he could park his car and go inside. Then again, your pastor would take a cell phone call from a stranger in a car, wouldn't he? How is that different from a conversation with someone at a drive-thru? I have heard many testimonies from people who say they use their commute time for prayer. Why not stop and pray with someone? And the good news is:

"We promise not to ask if you want fries with that," said Roger Storms, the Chandler Christian Church's pastor.