Sunday School was on Prayer (week 6). We did Imprecatory Prayer (invoke a curse or evil): Psa 7, 35, 55, 58, 59, 69, 79, 83, 109 & 137.
Someone mentioned that some wickedness (i.e. Nazi, child rape, etc.) are just so bad that they cannot be saved. Catholicism influence I bet. Degree of wickedness is irrelevant when it comes to Gospel and salvation. So good thing Pastor Chris attempted to correct it, though quite so subtly that I bet many wouldn't notice that it was a sort of correction.
The term imprecatory is a first for me, though the concept isn't. I have once pondered upon 1Cor 5:5 where Paul "delivers unto Satan those involving in sexual immorality for the destruction of the flesh so that their spirit may be saved. I think it is relevant. David his Psalms in the OT does seem more imprecatory than Paul in NT. Paul's imprecatory prayers aim still for salvation of the wicked soul. After doing a search in LOGOS, Van Til has more to say in some of his works.
on Wordless Prayer (psa 46:10 & Matthew 6:5-6) - the terminology is sort of new to me. Though if it's about being still as in Psa 46:10, then it's also same as Psa 4 and so on. I think the phrase wordless prayer is begging for too much. When we are silent, we could direct ourselves to God, such is already a wordless prayer.
It's interesting during the Sunday School, the pastor eventually concluded some discussions to motives. I have always wanted to state that Christianity is the only religion of motives. Because of this, when the charismatics turned true substance to superficial things, this is because it is ultimately affected by motives.