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What is the role of corporate prayer in the church? Prayer is as necessary to the Christian as breathing is to the human body—but it often doesn’t come quite as naturally. In fact, prayer in the church often gets subtly pushed to the side in favor of pragmatic practices that promise tangible results. This book focuses on the necessity of regular prayer as a central practice in the local...

I’m forever indebted to Gary Millar’s book on prayer, Calling on the Name of the Lord: A Biblical Theology of Prayer. His book is simply an answer to the question: What exactly is prayer? He looks for the common thread that weaves every instance of prayer from Genesis to Revelation to create a biblical definition of prayer that’s specific yet comprehensive. Here’s what he concludes: prayer is “calling on God to come through on his promise.”2 The first instance of recorded
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