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New Blog Series: Prayer
Starting later today, we’ll be starting a new blog series for January 2010. The focus is going to be prayer. What is prayer? What did Jesus teach and demonstrate concerning prayer? How can we pray effectively as individuals and as a community of faith? Whatever you’ve learned thus far, I want to challenge you to set aside your assumptions and learn about prayer afresh over the next 5 weeks as we explore what Scripture teaches. Here’s how this will work:
- During our worship gatherings in January we’ll be exploring various ways of praying together as a community.
- Between our worship gatherings on Sundays, we’ll use this website as a community “gathering place” for meditations on prayer every Monday through Friday, much like we did during our Sermon on the Mount series and the Advent series.
- Each day we’ll post scripture readings and exercises in prayer for you to experiment and leave your comments.
- Please be sure to leave your comments. We learn from each other and we can’t do that if you don’t participate
- We’ll explore prayer from an individual and group perspective during the coming weeks, and experiment with different forms of prayer, both individually and corporately.
Also, I’m excited to announce that we’re going to be taking this journey with Ikon Community, a new church plant forming in Southern California. Jason Coker, who leads Ikon, will be sharing blog posting duties with me (Ben) during this time – so some of the posts you see here will be from him. Take some time to visit their site, welcome them, and perhaps even engage in their conversations on prayer!
I’m looking forward to the series! The first week (which starts today!) will focus on the Lord’s Prayer. Jason’s post on “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your Name,” will be up later today.
Deb said...
1I’m really looking forward to this — how exciting to journey in a closer way with another community. I’m looking forward to learning from one another and growing in the area of prayer.
01/4/10 11:52 AM | Comment Link
Jason Coker said...
2Yep, I’m looking forward to this too Deb (and Ben!). I know our folks are excited to be joining with you guys for the next month.
Peace to you!
01/4/10 4:11 PM | Comment Link
Ikon Community – Jesus on Prayer, Part 1 said...
3[...] Our series on prayer began last week by focusing on the Lord’s Prayer. This week we will be looking at several passages from the gospels where Jesus teaches about prayer. Today we start with a look at Matthew 6:5-8. Take some time to read the passage slowly and carefully, jotting down any thoughts or questions you have. Then continue on to read the rest of this post and do the prayer exercise at the end. [...]
01/11/10 11:13 AM | Comment Link