Pay for Prayer?
A website with a strange new business model has been launched- pay for prayer. Â The idea is that many spiritual people out there want others to pray for them and their prayer requests, but either don’t know anyone willing to help or simply don’t have the time to do it themselves. Â Prayer-Helpers.com tries to give those people an easy option- pay another strong Christian to pray for their requests. Â The financial transaction helps to ensure that the prayers actually get done rather than merely get forgotten about or ignored. Â Several different types of prayer requests are offered:
- Wedding prayers: prayers for people getting married.
- Prayers for protection: for those in need of higher help.
- Prayers for humanity: love and concern for fellow people.
- Basic prayer request: for any basic prayer request that someone could need.
Some people have criticized the concept as being crass, but I think $9.99 for a prayer makes much more financial sense to most people than giving a full 10% of your income to a pastor who may not even know your name. Â Get your prayers and fellowship from Prayer Helpers and send the remaining money to help missions work or charities.
Prayer Helpers is staffed by strong Christians who must agree to stringent terms and are thoroughly investigated to make sure they are of upright moral character.
Reverend Joel Randall Gross
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My, that is a strange business model. Who on earth would think such a thing up? Who? Perhaps you could do some investigating for your avid readers and discover the name of the person who started this company? Who could it possibly be?
Whois information reports that the site’s registration is “Private”. Strange that.
Wow, what an incredible business model. No inventory, zero overhead, literally selling hope. $10 is pretty steep, I wonder if they would do more volume at an iTunes-like $0.99 cent price point. I mean there is zero cost-of-goods-sold. Or they could go the other way and really make it a premium service – $99/prayer. If these are devout christians they probably have a direct line to the big man upstairs so if people need to know for sure their prayer gets heard they might pay.