While I have yet to make it past Chapter four in Praying with Paul (grace and peace, right?), I was challenged even before I finished the preface of the book. According to D. A. Carson, one of the major problems within the Western Church is prayerlessness. Ok, great. I pray daily. Clearly this doesn’t apply to me. T he two pitfalls within the Western Christian church are too much activity that doesn’t include prayer and praying without a basis in the scriptures . OK, maybe I do pray daily, but are my prayers as well thought out as they should be? Are they too simplistic? Do I focus too much on my own wants and needs? They aren’t always based in scriptures. I rarely sit down with the Bible and pray a passage…clearly, I have a lot to learn. The first action I took to try to improve my prayer life was beginning to create space. (I write the word beginning , because truthfully, I st...
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