He didn’t mention singing, but if he had said, “When you sing, don’t sing in the crowd to show off how talented you are and receive the praise of men. . .” Would the same principle apply? DON’T sing corporately? Or would we be invoking a false negative. On the other hand, being genuine in private with God will trickle into genuineness in your corporate activities as well.

I still think corporate humiliation before God is a good thing. Maybe not a perfect thing, and those involved won’t all be on the same God-honoring page, probably, but yeah. . . . there were those Ninevites. There was a public day of fasting, humiliation and prayer at our nations start as well.

what the day was all about was praying for our country. the day was not political, not denominational, but simply about praying and asking God’s forgiveness for the ways we have walked away from Him.

rick perry did talk briefly and he prayed. personally i am quite pleased to have the head of our state be someone who isn’t afraid to stand up and tell the world that Jesus is his Savior and then go on to read scripture and pray publicly. our country would be better off if more Christians would do the same.

to answer your questions, i think that Jesus would be perfectly fine with renting out an arena to gather people together to pray and fast. i also think that Jesus would commend rick perry for leading well….that being said i do completely agree w samuel and daniel that only gov. perry and God know his true motives and heart, therefore if his heart was not in the right place, he will answer to God for that.