Week 1: Introduction — Learning to Pray Like a Child

1.Miller says that most Christians are embarrassed about their prayer lives. Were you relieved or unsettled to read that admission from an author writing a book on prayer? What does your reaction tell you about your own assumptions?

2.He argues that prayerlessness is rooted not primarily in busyness or laziness but in unbelief — a functional sense that prayer doesn't really work or matter. Do you agree with that diagnosis? Where do you see it in your own life?

3.Miller uses the image of a child freely and constantly talking to a parent as the model for prayer. What would have to change in your view of God for you to relate to him that way?