The 24-7 prayer room concept and the creepy 'Holy, holy, holy' throne room
A host explains the prayer room: for two weeks, around the clock, members sign up for hour-long shifts, writing prayers on paper-lined walls, reading the Bible, or praying before a cross. This year's addition is a 'throne room' evoking Isaiah 6 and Revelation — a raised throne with flowing robes, scripture, and music — and the hosts confess they couldn't lift their eyes in it and felt they had to back out rather than turn their backs. They roast the room's audio-Bible soundtrack, whose flat-voiced readers intone 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty' instead of the jubilant thousands-upon-thousands of angels Revelation describes.
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