LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Concert of Prayer to be annual event
by MARY UNDERWOOD, Rome
Nov 16, 2012 | 3066 views | 6 6 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend | print
ON TUESDAY, Oct. 30, the Rome Tea Party held its first Concert of Prayer on the steps of Rome’s City Auditorium. What a great day it was! A number of local pastors and lay people joined with the Tea Party to offer a prayer for our nation. This was first of what will become an annual event.

It has been said many times, “there’s power in prayer”. Rome’s Tea Party believes the true power is in the one to whom we offer our prayers, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

There is no doubt the believers in our nation are wrestling against all sorts of powers, rulers of darkness, principalities and especially spiritual wickedness. We all can see this all over our airways, print media and internet. These sins against our God make this believer think of the Bible verse “Jesus wept” (John 11:35).

Is Jesus weeping now? Is Jesus weeping looking down on his creation and seeing all the corruption and all types of perversion running rampant around our country? What have people done to his creation? Shame, shame.

Rome’s Tea Party is an awesome group of individuals from all religious, political and socio-economic persuasions. This group of like-minded individuals has a powerful focus: Christian values, adherence to our Constitution, fiscal responsibility, limited government and free enterprise. The Tea Party invites all individuals who believe in these principles to come join us and help us promote them and hold our elected leaders accountable just like our Founding Fathers set it up in our Constitution.

The Tea Party would like to publicly thank the following participants in our Concert of Prayer: Pastor Jack Foley, Covenant Presbyterian Church; Pastor Mac McCurry, Pleasant Valley North Baptist Church; Pastor Steve Coyle, Beth Aliyah; Pastor Ernie Woody, Grace Bible Church, Pastor John Geaney, Fifth Avenue Baptist Church; Pastor John Hayes, Mike Morton and Randy Smith. The most beautiful, heartfelt and humbling prayers were offered up for our nation by these dedicated and unafraid pastors and people on this day and the audience joined together for The Lord’s Prayer. We all sang God Bless America to end the Concert of Prayer. Many thanks to all who attended.

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rootytooty
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November 17, 2012
A bunch of new churches will be formed by preachers splitting congregations in two by endorsing candidates for office. Sadly, more churches form from split-ups than by winning new converts.
WWrome
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November 17, 2012
OMG, you can't make this crap up. Get off your knees and go do something nice for someone else. And you seriously can't think anything Jesus taught had anything to do with Tea Party beliefs? This is what happens when you chronically underfund public education--you grow a bunch of idiots.
DannyBuck
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November 16, 2012
GOP = "God is Optional Politics"
Trelicious
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November 16, 2012
Does Danny get punished by the Democrats for saying God, or does he get a pass for using it in an insulting way? I'm so confused on the rules. What if I say "God loves food stamps" does that really confuse Democrats? What if a gay person says "God is cool" but that same gay person insists on keeping 70% of what he earns? So many questions.
Icarus10
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November 16, 2012
I would bet that the Tea Party has never once crossed Jesus's mind.
Trelicious
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November 16, 2012
Jesus is way too busy trying to mimic Obama.
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