I've tried very hard to avoid learning anything about the moronic "emerging church" movement, but despite my best efforts I came across the prayer lamp (thanks to my fiancee, who couldn't stop laughing).
This is almost as retarded as the idea I had 15 years ago when I prayed into a tape recorder and played it back to God.
But is this *real* prayer?
Why not? What makes a prayer 'real'? Does prayer have to take place in a church building or using certain 'special' words? Christians prayer in wide variety of ways - if you mean it, then it's the real thing.
Christians apparently conjugate in a wide variety ways as well. But what does *real* grammar look like? Here's a clue: it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
Don't discount the emergent church movement because there are some weird folks on the fringes. Same thing could be said about Baptists. Much of what is being proposed by the ec is worth taking a hard look at.
Suggest Jollyblogger.typepad.com/jollyblogger for starting point to understand where they are going, and based on what.
I love your site just wanted to let you know though, you misspelled grammar. ;)
Tim: Well yeah, that was kinda part of the joke. If it's too subtle, maybe I should change it.
Why knock it? It works! From the graphic, it appears that your prayer was holy crap, that it be stupid. Your prayer was answered: it is stupid after all.
I'm anxiously awaiting the Emerging Church's upcoming release of Bongo the Prayer Orangutan! He throws poop and you can type in prayers in the flying blobs of feces.