Tuesday 15 March 2011

The vision of corporate prayer

We recently inherited a pile of old Leadership journals which were produced in the USA some years ago. The one I am browsing at the moment from 2001 is mainly about prayer and this paragraph caught my eye.

" Our individualistic culture robs us of a vision for corporate prayer. Private devotion is upheld as the ideal. But Scripture teaches that the church prayed together. And Jesus taught us to pray in a collective sense. The language of Matthew 6 is essentially , "When you pray, pray Our Father and "give us our daily bread" His ideal is that we pray in community. People who have considered this teaching have asked me "Which is more important, private or corporate prayer?" I respond, "Which leg do you need to walk on more, your right or your left?"

(by Daniel Henderson)


God bless

Carol

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