A Praying Life by Paul Miller
Week 12: Chapters 24–26 — A Praying Life in Community
Read Chapters 24–26 of A Praying Life (covering corporate prayer, praying with others, and what it means to build a praying community).
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Miller turns outward in these chapters — prayer is not only a private conversation but a community practice. This week explores what it means to pray together in ways that are honest, not performative.
Discussion Questions
6 questions1.Many people find corporate prayer — praying out loud with others — more uncomfortable than private prayer. Why do you think that is? What fears or self-consciousness arise when you are asked to pray in a group?
2.Miller describes the way corporate prayer can easily become performance — people speaking at God for the benefit of the people in the room. Have you experienced this? How do you guard against it?
3.He argues that one of the greatest gifts we can give another person is to pray for them by name, specifically, regularly — and to tell them we are doing it. Who in your life needs to know you are praying for them?
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