Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools by Tyler Staton
Week 1: Introduction — The Gift Nobody Wants
Read the Introduction of Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools. Primary passages: Matthew 6:5–13; Luke 11:1–4.
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Staton opens by naming the gap most of us feel but rarely admit — that prayer is supposed to be the center of the Christian life, and yet it so often feels like the most burdensome obligation on our list. Come to these questions willing to be honest about where you actually are.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Staton describes prayer as simultaneously "the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious promises." Yet most people find it boring, obligatory, or confusing. Which of those three words — boring, obligatory, or confusing — best describes your own relationship with prayer right now, and why?
2.The title *Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools* sets up a creative tension. In your own words, what do you think Staton means by each half of that phrase? What kind of person do you imagine when you picture each one?
3.Staton introduces the idea that prayer is "a search for help outside the self" (a phrase that John Mark Comer calls the most important statement for our time). What does it reveal about us — and about our culture — that we find it so hard to ask for help outside ourselves?
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