Author PAUL TAUTGES
Publisher DAYONE
ISBN 1846251962
One hundred and eighteen pages packed with instruction, encouragement and counsel to pastors and leaders on the matter of prayer in the congregation. This book points out the diminishing of prayer meetings and pastoral prayers in the main service of the church. The lack is obvious and its outcome clear to those who have eyes to see. A life of prayer is an irrefutable sign of God-dependence; in contrast, prayerlessness is a sign of the self-assurance often seen in seemingly successful churches.
Programs, seminars and all kinds of experiments in innovation are proof of the devaluation of prayer in the life of a church congregation and this book sets out to provoke and promote prayerfulness and helps leaders and pastors to focus by providing a number of chapters concentrating on prayer and appendices to assist in bringing prayerfulness back into the mainstream of congregational church life. Leaders must teach their churches, realizing first, that they themselves may well have departed from the prayerful life. Habitual instruction on the place and power of prayer is essential, some have never learned it; others have neglected it. The basic truths of scripture as regards the prayer life are the subject matter of these chapters.
Prayer, an expression of God-dependency, Common people at prayer (a chapter based on Acts chapter one), Praying with the forgiving heart and How husbands get their prayers answered are the titles of some of the chapters and give a flavor of the spiritual substance and practical counsel to be found in this helpful book. The intention is that it will serve as a springboard to assist leadership into helping their fellow-believers into the joy and work of prayer.
It provides a fundamental theological tool directing leaders into the importance of the kind of congregational prayer that avoids the pitfalls and provides balance and centers their church on God, His will and ways.
