You spoke wisely and correctly in your comments in a recent edition of the
“Baptist Message” when you stated that as long as there are football
games there will be prayer at football games. At Jena High School public prayer
on the sound system has long been a tradition. We have not had our first home
game of the year as yet and I do not know if the tradition will continue or
not. PRAYER WILL!
You spoke wisely and correctly in your comments in a recent edition of the
“Baptist Message” when you stated that as long as there are football
games there will be prayer at football games. At Jena High School public prayer
on the sound system has long been a tradition. We have not had our first home
game of the year as yet and I do not know if the tradition will continue or
not. PRAYER WILL!
In two scrimmages and one jamboree held up to this date, August
26, I have been impressed as never before by the witness of the members of the
Jena High Giants team kneeling, in mass, to pray both before and after the game.
These prayers were initiated and led by young men on the team and not by any
member of the staff. I am happy to say that members of local Southern Baptist
Churches are among the leaders of this prayer time. It is another de-monstration
of the truth of Gods Word regarding the training of our children.
No, team prayer is not new, nor is it unique to Jena. No one
should get the impression that I am trying to hold our local team up as “more
spiritual” than yours. I just wish to say that the witness has a new meaning
and is to me far more powerful and poignant than any prayer done as tradition
only. Perhaps the Supreme Court ruling should be the impetus for us to examine
what we do in light of Zechariah 7:5,6.