Prayer styles: long stretches, booklets, loud music, and listening
Pants Whetstone, interviewed about his prayer-room hours, says he enjoyed the throne room and spent five or six hours with Engeldinger, watching a Mark Driscoll sermon on marriage and men and talking it through. Dan Hudson's last-minute idea — small booklets for writing down prayer reminders — gets praised, and Dan describes his own sessions: time in the throne room, then mostly sitting, listening, and asking God what he wants. Ben Foost describes cranking worship music loud and pacing, writing first as a 'cleanse,' and argues prayer shouldn't be only face-on-the-ground submission since God made people to go out and interact with others.
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