Pray Five Times Towards Mecca

The national day of prayer has come and gone once again. The heathen think their prayers are heard for their much repetition...

On FOTF Jim Dobson featured his wife Shirley, who heads up the thing, and they had this short exchange:

Shirley: Prayer is one of the best hopes for our nation.

Jim: It's the only hope.

There then ensued a discussion of this "only hope" and of God answering a nation's prayers if they call on Him.

I don't want to get too picky, but what was absent from the entire half-hour discussion was the gospel. Prayer is important, but it must be qualified. Muslims "religiously" pray five times a day towards Mecca (every single day), but NOBODY is listening (see: the prophets of Baal on Mt. Carmel). Every day is a "National Day of Prayer" in Saudi Arabia. Lots of "people of faith" in Iran too.

Dobson NEVER qualified "prayer" or to whom these prayers must be directed... and he certainly never said anything about WHO'S prayers God promised to hear.

He's scared to. He knows that Christ divides. The gospel divides. This is just one more example of the good doctor's willful ignorance and his predilection for putting good politics over the good news.