“The subject matter should be decent. More than one congregation has been mortified to have to add their corporate amen to a plea for the healing of someone’s hemorrhoids. While we perhaps have not gone as far the Philistines and made gold replicas of them to set up in the foyer, we do talk about personal things in public worship far more than we should. Another appalling practice in this regard might be classed as gynecological prayer requests during childbirth. ‘Susan is not at eight centimeters, and we should all pray . . .’ While we should all be concerned, in a general way, for the state of Susan’s cervix, that’s no reason to bring it up in the public prayers at church” (Mother Kirk, 149).
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