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And the Place Was Shaken: How to Lead a Powerful Prayer Meeting is unavailable, but you can change that!

Franklin’s thesis is that praying together as a church is crucial because it is communion between Christ and His body and should never be minimized as formality. Prayer is a vital element of corporate worship, as important as any sermon or musical presentation. However, having an effective corporate experience of prayer—whether in a large congregational setting or a small group—depends on many...

belief that the apostles modeled the need to delegate responsibilities in order to guard time for prayer to preach powerfully. That morning in my quiet time I realized that was not the point of this passage. The apostles were not referring to their personal prayer life but to the ministry of mobilizing the people of God to pray together. They were declaring that the two ministries they especially must do as church leaders were mobilizing the church to pray and preaching/teaching the Word of God.
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