In This TogetherPrayer is therefore not a strictly private thing. As much as we can, we should pray
In This TogetherPrayer is therefore not a strictly private thing. As much as we can, we should pray with others both formally in gathered worship & informally. Why?If the substance of prayer is to continue a conversation with God, & if the purpose of it is to know God better, then this can happen best in community.C. S. Lewis argues that it takes a community of people to get to know an individual person. Reflecting on his own friendships, he observed that some aspects of one of his friend’s personality were brought out only through interaction with a second friend. That meant if he lost the second friend, he lost the part of his first friend that was otherwise invisible. “By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets.”If it takes a community to know an ordinary human being, how much more necessary would it be to get to know Jesus alongside others? By praying with friends, you will be able to hear & see facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived.–Tim Keller -- source link
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