I’ve heard Mark Dever say that we should pray so much in our church gatherings that the nonbelievers get bored. We talk too much to a God they don’t believe in. Maybe that’s hyperbole, but certainly we—by which I mean we as Christians and church members together—should pray bigger and better and more biblical prayers. In a sentence, that’s the goal of this book: learning how to pray better and more as churches. Just as our private prayer lives can be improved by God’s grace, so too can our corporate
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