Episode 16: On Corporate Prayer

Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

9Marks

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In many evangelical churches, the public prayers are casual, short, and few. Is that a problem? How does this contemporary situation compare to the history of Protestant churches? How should pastors seek to reinvigorate their churches’ prayer practices?

Jonathan sat down with Mark to discuss all these questions and more.

SHOW NOTES:

– In your experience, what does the public prayer look like in the average evangelical church? How does this compare historically? (:50)

– Without impugning motives, why do churches play so little? (2:50)

– Is there a pattern of corporate prayer in the Bible? (4:00)

– Is a church being disobedient if they’re not giving ample time to corporate prayer? (5:25)

– What does should the public prayer look like? What is a prayer of praise of confession? Should only men pray publicly? (6:30)

– How should a pastor think through his “pastoral prayer” (14:00)?

– This amount of prayer can be tough to get through for those not used to it. It slows people down and causes us to actively participate in a service. (21:00)

– Why pray “we” not “I”? (24:45)

– What about a Sunday evening prayer service? (25:15)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Jonathan Lehman.
0:07.4	And I'm here to tell you that he is.
0:09.5	You've made that joke before.
0:11.0	I have not.
0:11.7	Yes, you have.
0:12.5	I am not.
0:13.0	Who are you?
0:13.9	I'm Mark Devere.
0:14.6	This is, and I'm here to tell you, as you can tell, with the same old jokes, it is marked ever.
0:20.2	This is an episode of Pastors Talk.
0:22.9	We are Nine Marks, which exists to equip church leaders with a biblical vision and practical resources for building healthy churches.
0:30.7	Learn more at nine marks.org.
0:33.6	Mark, I want to think today with you about corporate prayer.
0:38.6	Does that sound all right?
0:39.5	Sounds great.
0:42.1	Prayers of praise, confession, Thanksgiving, pastoral, and so forth.
0:46.3	Let's start here.
0:47.1	If you go to the average rank and file evangelical church this coming Sunday morning,
0:51.5	in your experience, what will the public prayers be like in terms of
0:56.7	content, length, tone? What do you see out there? Casual, short, few. Yeah. So I assume if I'm in an
1:10.5	evangelical church, a little time will be given to corporate prayer.
1:13.6	How does this compare to what churches have done historically? Do you have any sense of that?
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