Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home by Richard J. Foster
Week 7: Moving Upward — Sacramental Prayer & Unceasing Prayer
Read Chapters 11–12 of Prayer by Richard Foster ("Sacramental Prayer" and "Unceasing Prayer").
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What if prayer is not limited to the hours we set aside for it? These two chapters expand our vision of where and how we can encounter God — through the tangible elements of sacrament and through the continuous current of prayer running beneath all of life.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Foster describes Sacramental Prayer as prayer that is anchored in and flows from the physical sacraments of the church — baptism and communion in particular. How does your church background shape your understanding of the sacraments? Do you experience them as encounters with God, or more as symbolic ordinances?
2.Foster argues that sacramental prayer recovers the goodness of the physical world — that God chooses to meet us in water, bread, and wine, not just in invisible spiritual experience. Why might this be important for how we understand the relationship between the physical and the spiritual?
3.Foster suggests that participating in the Lord's Supper can itself be a profound act of prayer — not passive observation but active communion with the risen Christ. How does this challenge or enrich the way you approach the table?
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