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The State of the Church: A Plea for More Prayer is unavailable, but you can change that!

How can missionary work be fruitful if our own house is out of order? That is the question that Andrew Murray tries to answer in The State of the Church. The consensus of most participants at the World Missionary Conference of 1911 was the “home” church was in disarray—it was the lack of faith and the half-hearted consecration of ministers and members of the Church that was hindering the rapid...

a new in the hearts of all His followers, and that through them His life may flow forth to the world lying in darkness.” This is further emphasised in the first chapter, which opens thus: “The subject which has been entrusted to the Commission drives us back at every turn to the question of the spiritual condition of the Home Church. Has that Church sufficient vitality for the tremendous task to which it is called? We realise that the fundamental problem is that of the deepened sincerity of the religious
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