Church 101

If there's one thing the church needs, it's more prayer. It's an obvious statement perhaps but it's also one that periodically needs repeated because we have quite a habit of forgetting that it is what God desires. Even more, it's what we NEED.

When it comes time for public prayer, I have two questions. The First is Q: Why Should we pray? I suppose we could come up with lots of reasons of our own accord, but as it pertains to God's view in 1 Timothy of what the church should do it really comes down to the fact that A: prayer pleases God. So last week we looked at prayer, and we saw four types of prayer representing the entire spectrum of prayer, and we came away with the injunction:

I'm sure most of you remember Rodney King's infamous question "Can we get along here? Can we all get along?"¹ In an ideal world we could. But this world is no longer ideal; it's broken. It's scarred by sin as a matter of fact it is scarred by our sin thus we ourselves are also broken and scarred. The effects of the scar are deep and painful. In terms of human relationships - selfishness, greed, idolatry, pride and a hundred other sins sneak in to destroy what we have.