Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools by Tyler Staton
Week 11: Chapter 10 — A Life of Prayer
Read Chapter 10 (and any Conclusion) of Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools. Primary passages: Colossians 4:2; Acts 2:42–47; Revelation 5:8.
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Staton brings the book to a close by asking not just how we pray but what kind of people we are becoming through prayer — and what it looks like for a community, not just an individual, to build its life around conversation with God. These questions help you think about the long arc.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Staton's closing chapters move from individual prayer practices to the vision of a community shaped by prayer — like the early church in Acts 2, which devoted itself to prayer as a communal, corporate act. How does your current community reflect that vision? Where does it fall short, and what would need to change?
2.He argues throughout the book that prayer is not primarily about getting things from God but about being transformed by proximity to God. Looking back over the postures of prayer you've studied (silence, lament, confession, intercession, persistence, wonder, the Examen), which one has the most potential to change you over the next year? Why that one?
3.Staton describes the "24/7 prayer room" model — spaces set apart for continuous prayer by a community — as a tangible sign of the church's conviction that prayer moves history. Even if you are not part of a formal prayer movement, what does it mean for you personally to treat prayer as something worth giving your best hours to, not just your leftover minutes?
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