Does anyone know where that Mo Letter is where Berg talked about prayer and said that when you go to pray and "present your petitions to God" that he said you first had to praise God "like salaaming before some ancient Middle-eastern king"?
In other words, praising God was some kind of formal ritual to get done and out of the way before you got down to the real business of asking God for stuff and presenting your petitions. And sure enough, in the Family that's how we prayed! Who remembers prayer time starting with "Thaaaaank You, Jesus! Praaaaaaise You, Jesus! Thaaaaank You, Jesus! Hallelujah! Thaaaaank You Jesus." And then when all those weird stretched-out thanks and stretched-out praise were done, then the requests began?
It was exactly like bowing and scraping before some ancient king and saying platitudes like, "Oh great and magnificent one, manifold in splendor, etc. etc." All false praise and baloney. It was all some ritual to be gotten out of the way. At least that's how I recall it.