Prayer in church life: there is no cracked code
- Is there a right way to pray - a cracked code that makes God act?
The room discusses prayer as a church-service element - prayer as a transition between the other things, and whether it has slid into the gray. Mike says he does not believe there is a cracked code: praying the right prayer does not make God's eyebrow go up. They recount the Brooklyn Tabernacle story (Cymbala on a boat: be faithful to me in the way that you pray and I will show up), the Sermon on the Mount's poor in spirit, Jesus calling the temple a house of prayer, the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and prayers as incense.
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