Cyber Prayers?!!!

In some ways technology helps me in my walk with God: I can read the Bible and some comentaries on my phone as I'm waiting in line anywhere, I can listen to MP3's of scripture as well as worship during my commute, but I think we've gone too far when we are e-mailing our prayers (and paying!) for a robovoice to pray on our behalf (see article below).

E-Prayer Dials Up Heaven Virtual praying site says it will put you in touch with the man upstairs:

By CAITLIN MILLAT

Could old-fashioned prayer be one day supplanted by an online prayer service?

Too busy to pray? You can now use your Blackberry to get in touch with the big guy.
New Web site InformationAgePrayer.com will pray for you for a small fee, reading your emails out-loud through a vocal replicator that will purportedly take your requests straight to God's ears.
Users can select the religion and the types of prayers they want, and for about $4 a month, be in constant "contact" with a higher power.
Catholic visitors can choose to send the classic Paternoster prayer, while Muslim visitors can virtually worship with the Fajir, the first of the five daily prayers in Islam.
Information Age Prayer isn't intended to replace traditional forms of worship - but it does give users relief that their prayers will be heard, the site says.
"At Information Age Prayer, we think our service should be used like a prayer supplement, to extend and strengthen a subscriber's connection with God," the site's mission reads.
"It gives you the satisfaction of knowing that your prayers will always be said even if you wake up late, or forget," it says.
Ten percent of the service's total revenue goes to charity, according to the site.

Isn't that like outsourcing a conversation? How would Claudia (my wife) respond if I hired a "vocal replacator" to take care of my conversations with her? The realationship wouldn't last long, if you could call it a relationship at that point! Do those using this service see God as their Lord, Savior, friend and someone who gave His own son in order to provide us with direct access to Himself? Or is the Creator of all that exists viewed as nothing more than a simple vending machine where you pay with prayer and get what you want? Paying for someone else...rather... somTHING else to interceed on our behalf... I think Jesus had somthing to say about this. Scripture speaks of the veil that seperated people from the Holy of Holies in the temple (representative of the seperation of man from God due to our sin) being torn in two at the Crusifixion. No more burrier between us and God when we receive Christ's sacrifice. Sin is cancled and we can go directly to God whenever and wherever we happen to be. Pretty Amazing. That's Amazing Grace! Think about it as we aproach Resurection Sunday in a few weeks.

God bless!