A strange place for a monastery
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2 responses to “A strange place for a monastery”
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I would love to visit there someday! I feel like prayer is so often just a little “time-out” in the worship service, a chance for the song leader/worship team and the minister to give their voices a rest, or it signals a transition from singing to the communion or some other part of worship. I can’t remember the last time we had a good old-fashioned prayer service where we really were devoted to prayer.
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Lisa –
Your desire for more prayer truly is a gift from God, meant to draw you to Himself.You’re right about the way so many of us experience prayer in a church service – it’s used as a transition instead of as our reason for being there. (I was involved in service planning at one church, and volunteered on the planning team one year at the seminary where I work, and we’d often talk about using prayer as a bridge from one service element to another.)
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