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GLC Survey

mrBen — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:11:31 +0000

Well – Lent is over, and so it’s time for the Great Lent Challenge Survey.

If you took part, head on over to the survey to fill out your responses. Any problems or questions, please don’t hesitate to mail me – mrben -at- jedimoose -dot- org

I know some folks have got a bit of time left to wait on their answers or lack thereof, so I won’t be publishing the results until around the end of May.

mrBen

Answering some GLC questions

mrBen — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:48:27 +0000

I’ve had a couple of questions asked since I initiated the Great Lent Challenge – I hesitate to call them “Frequently Asked Questions” because they weren’t exactly flowing think and fast, but here we go with some answers:

What are you praying for? Well – apart from praying that everyone elses prayers would be answered, I’m praying for a guy I know who’s partner was recently taken ill.
Don’t clauses 1 and 8 contradict themselves? No. Clause 8 only requires you to invoke the name of Jesus, not to actually believe. It’s there as a control point for the end results – rather than people coming back and say that they’ve been praying to Allah or Vishna or the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
How should I pray? It doesn’t really matter all that much. You can be as formal or informal as you like. If it helps, just make it conversational. Other people prefer something more structured, like “Jesus, please will you [insert prayer here]. Amen”. There isn’t a “magic” formula, so do what makes you feel comfortable. Avoiding blasphemy might be nice, but I find God is a lot more forgiving about that kind of thing than a lot of people

mrBen

The Great Lent Challenge

mrBen — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:52:02 +0000

OK – so I’m a few days late getting this posted, as Lent started on Wednesday, so I apologise. A couple of years ago for Lent I committed myself to posted on a daily basis. This year, I want to something of an experiment. And that is that I want to challenge everyone to pray for one thing every day for the rest of Lent, and then collate the “results”. Here are the “terms and conditions”:

1. You don’t need to believe anything. You don’t even need to believe that prayer does anything.
2. You do need to commit to praying daily for the same thing until Sunday April 12th. (If you really want, you can skip Sundays, because traditionally the 40 days of Lent don’t include the Sundays)
3. Your prayer cannot be for yourself, or for something that would profit you most. It must be for someone else.
4. Your prayer must be measurable in its result.
5. Your prayer must be “local” in its scale – for someone you know or a situation that is personal to you (bearing in mind condition 3). World peace is not an option here (maybe next year).
6. At the end of the challenge there will be a simple survey for you to fill out to collate the results. (Said survey will not reveal names or identities)
7. This is a viral challenge – post it on your blog, or on your facebook, or where ever, and challenge other people to be involved.
8. Like it or not, I am a Christian, and this is a Christian challenge, so your prayer needs to invoke the name of Jesus.

My commitment is this – whatever the results, I will definitely publish them.

Are you up for the challenge?

mrBen