In this new series, the team works through some central themes that have emerged as we've been talking with leaders about A Praying Church, elaborating on material Paul recently shared at an event at the The Gospel Coalition conference.
"I tell the story at the beginning of the A Praying Church book and seminar. My dad, Jack Miller, had just started at Westminster Seminary faculty. He just gotten his PhD, and started as faculty at Westminster Seminary when he visited Francis Shaffer at L’Abri. He came back very surprised, because he had experienced a community ever so briefly that had prayer at the center and he'd never seen or experienced that before. Here he was an accomplished reformed scholar, even evangelist and pastor, and that was totally new to him."
"Pride and self-will constantly draw us into a fellowship of his suffering -- and that's the door to prayer.""Paul ends that section of Ephesians 3 by praying a doxology. He turns and worships, 'now to him who's able to do beyond all that we can ask or even think.' Some translations say 'imagine,' and that’s a great translation because your imagination takes you into worlds that are outside of parameters, outside of our thought life. One of my reflections on my dad is that after all this, he began to do daring things and dream about doing daring things. So his prayers got bigger."
[DISCIPLESHIP] 5. Go Down, Go Low, Go Small]
[DISCIPLESHIP] 4. Hunt for Teachability
[DISCIPLESHIP] 3. Start with Friendship + Aim at a Telos
[DISCIPLESHIP] 2. The Medium is the Message
[DISCIPLESHIP] 1. Enlarging Our Imagination for Discipleship
[FAITH] 6. Faith is a Habit of the Heart (POJ 4.4)
[FAITH] 5. Faith Looks at Jesus (POJ 4.4)
[FAITH] 4. Faith Surrenders (POJ 4.3)
[FAITH] 3. Be Careful Getting into a Boat with Jesus (POJ 4.2)
[FAITH] 2. 24 Hrs with Jesus: Faith Empowers Love (POJ 4.1)
[FAITH] 1. The Love of God in Our Hearts (POJ 4, intro)
[SPECIAL] Mangers Aren't Clean: Jesus Comes in the Midst of Manure - with Jill Miller
[RUNS ON PRAYER] 4. We Are a Resurrection People
[RUNS ON PRAYER] 3. Powered by the Spirit
[RUNS ON PRAYER] 2. Into a World of Surprise
[JESUS & DEPENDENCE] 14. The Range of Love (POJ 3.10)
[JESUS & DEPENDENCE] 13. Selfless Openness (POJ 3.9)
[JESUS & DEPENDENCE] 12. Love Draws Near (POJ 3.8)
[JESUS & DEPENDENCE] 10. Gentle Intrusion (POJ 3.7)
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