Should We Pray to Jesus?
Should We Worship, Praise, or Pray to Jesus? Is the Father the only one we should pray to? Well, to be completely honest, my view when I started this study is that we absolutely should only pray to the Father, and really, He is the only one we should worship and praise as well. That's what I was taught growing up, the conclusion I came to studying for myself, and the conclusion many pastors I respect have come to on their own and taught. Perhaps that was partially due to the over-Jesusfication of mainstream Christianity to the point where they exclude the Father pretty much entirely, but be that as it may, this was my viewpoint. The Father gets ignored, but that also doesn't automatically mean we should then ignore Jesus either, to recognize the Father. The purpose of this article, then, is to study and see what the example of the Apostles was, and indeed the very instructions we ourselves have been given, to see what we should actually be doing. First, we're go...