We Do Know What To Pray For (Santamaria)

Prayer is one of the places where a man finds out, in the most personal way possible, that God is God and he is not. In theory, everybody agrees with that. In practice, we are all tempted to treat prayer like a lever: pull it correctly, and heaven must move. Or we treat it like a performance: say it well enough, and the room will feel spiritual. Or we treat it like a duty: do it because we’re supposed to, and hope God counts it as something.

Corporate Prayer Among the Baptists (Santamaria)

CORPORATE PRAYER AMONG BAPTISTS

FOREWORD

This is an excerpt from an upcoming eBook titled Corporate Prayer?

Guillermo Santamaria

Corporate prayer—people praying together as a gathered body—is as old as the Scriptures themselves, but its shape and meaning have shifted across time and traditions. Let’s trace the thread.