Week 3: Chapter 2 — Prayer

1.Foster insists that 'to pray is to change' — that genuine prayer always transforms the one who prays. Has prayer changed you? Can you point to a specific season of prayer that visibly altered how you thought, felt, or acted?

2.He challenges the idea of prayer as a monologue — us talking at God — and calls instead for a prayer that listens as well as speaks. What would it look like, practically, to introduce more listening into your prayer life?

3.Foster discusses what he calls 'simple prayer' — the honest, unpolished prayer of a person who simply brings themselves before God without pretense. Many of us have learned to pray in a particular register or vocabulary. How honest and unguarded is your actual prayer? What would change if you prayed with complete transparency?