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Crying, She Asked If God Hears The Prayer Of Jews When Baptist minister Bailey Smith said, “God does not hear the prayer of a Jew,” the Jewish community was outraged. While speaking on a college campus, a Jewish student approached me crying. A fellow student told her this anti-Semitic trope and said she would go to hell unless she accepts Jesus. I told her that ignorance comes in many forms and reassured her that our bible teaches that God hears our prayers, and we don’t need an intermediary.

The Minister’s Words Broke Her Heart In 1980, when Baptist minister Bailey Smith said, “God does not hear the prayer of a Jew,” the Jewish community was outraged. After the public outcry, I was lecturing on a college campus when a distraught and heartbroken Jewish student approached me with tears in her eyes. A fellow student had repeated the minister’s anti-Semitic slur and told her she would go to hell unless she accepted Jesus. I reassured her that our bible teaches that God does hear our