I keep wondering why a great majority of people don't usually pray to God in any language other than English. I've noticed this in school fellowships and almost all the Pentecostal Churches that I have been to. The only time that I see people pray in native languages is during indigenous services in Catholic and Anglican Churches. And don't come here giving excuses that it's because you want people around you to understand what you are saying. A lot of people who pray alone and aloud do so in English , moreover prayer is between you and God and you shouldn't bother if the person next to you understands what you are saying or not.

A lot of people who pray alone and aloud do so in English

you know this how?

The people who bought christianity to our shores were english. The bible was wriiten in english. The image of Jesus Christ looks english. If we had all stuck to our native & traditional religions am sure we'd be speaking our own mother tongue while practicing our native relions but since we prefer the religion of our colonial masters which was handed to us in english what do you expect?

manmustwac: The people who bought christianity to our shores were english. The bible was wriiten in english. The image of Jesus Christ looks english. If we had all stuck to our native & traditional religions am sure we'd be speaking our own mother tongue while practicing our native relions but since we prefer the religion of our colonial masters which was handed to us in english what do you expect?

It's not a matter of Christianity being English. The way we worship God and Christ is the way it's done all over the world, but when they pray they pray in their native language. Christianity was brought to the Philippines by the Spanish, but you don't see an average Filippino praying in Spanish.