Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools by Tyler Staton
Week 12: Review & Reflection — The Whole Journey
No new reading this week. Review your notes, journal entries, and any highlighted passages from Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools.
Previewing Week 12 of Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools
Read 3 of 8 discussion questions below. Unlock the complete 12-week guide when you’re ready.
This final week is not about finishing a course but about taking stock of a journey — what God has been doing in you through these weeks, what you want to carry forward, and what you do not want to lose. Take your time with these questions.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Go back to the sentence you wrote in Week 1 about what you hoped to find or experience by the end of this study. Read it now. How would you answer that hope? What did you find that you were looking for? What did you find that surprised you?
2.Of all the postures of prayer Staton introduces — silence, lament, confession, intercession, persistence, wonder, the Examen — which one has been most meaningful, most challenging, or most transformative for you? What made that posture land so deeply?
3.Has your understanding of prayer — what it is, what it is for, what it does — changed through this study? If so, describe the before and after in your own words. If not, what did the book reinforce or confirm that you already believed?