We constantly hear from pastors wanting to see prayer increase in their churches. The secret to becoming a praying church is to…pray.
Some highlights from today’s episode include:
- There is a great desire to pray more in churches, but a lack of consistent application in corporate worship settings.
- Anything you want to increase in your church will take intentionality.
- Prayer is visible and active in praying churches. People are encouraged by seeing others pray.
- Sometimes liturgy and routine can lead to rigidity and a lack of flexibility in a corporate worship service.
The seven ways churches make prayer a focus are:
- They stress the priority of prayer
- They have a designated time of corporate prayer with clear guidelines
- They share stories of answered prayers
- They provide prayer guides in the worship folder/bulletin
- They have visible manifestations of prayer
- They pray to send people out from the worship services
- They have people pray during and before the worship services
Resources mentioned in today’s podcast
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