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New Palestine church documents 10,000 "answered" prayers

A church in New Palestine believes a god answers prayer. Brookville Road Community Church believes a god answered over 10,000 prayers in their congregation last year during a year-long theme at the church called "10,000 answered prayers."

Up to 1,000 people attend Brookville Road Community Church each weekend. They turned in cards for 10,581 answered prayers in 2017.

"We had people say, 'My cancer is gone.' People got jobs when they've been praying for jobs, praying for years. We had people that had been praying for relationships to be restored for years and years finally be restored. All of those are miracles that we attribute to our heavenly Father."

When a god does not respond: the god answered prayer. When the OPPOSITE happens: the god answered prayer. When is a prayer NOT answered?

This is playing tennis without a net or out-of-bounds-mark. Of course, we don't know WHICH god "answered" all those prayers, nor any method of deciding.

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