How to Pray: What if prayer is more than words and information transfer? And, if so, what does that look like?
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One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the last day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time." - John Piper
"In ways that are more “modern” than biblical, we have been taught to assume that human beings are fundamentally thinking things. We view our bodies as (at best!) extraneous, temporary vehicles for trucking around “minds,” which is where all the real action takes place. In other words, we imagine human beings as giant bobblehead dolls: with humungous heads and itty-bitty, unimportant bodies.
“You are what you think” is a motto that reduces human beings to brains-on-a-stick. Such an intellectualist model of the human person—one that reduces us to mere intellect—assumes that learning (and hence discipleship) is primarily a matter of depositing ideas and beliefs into mind-containers. So we assume that a disciple is a learner who is acquiring more information about God—sanctification by information transfer. If “you are what you think,” then filling your thinking organ with Bible verses should translate into Christlike character, right?
If “you are what you think,” then changing what you think should change who you are, right? Have you ever found that new knowledge and information don’t seem to translate into a new way of life? Ever had the experience of hearing an incredibly illuminating and informative sermon on a Sunday, waking up Monday morning with new resolve and conviction to be different, and already failing by Tuesday night? You are hungry for knowledge; you thirstily drink up biblical ideas; you long to be Christlike; yet all of that knowledge doesn’t seem to translate into a way of life.
It seems we can’t think our way to holiness. Why is that? Is it because you forgot something? Is there some other piece of knowledge you still need to acquire? Is it because you’re not thinking hard enough? What if it’s because you aren’t just a thinking thing?"
-James K.A. Smith
Matthew 22:37–38 (NLT)
Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
1 Chronicles 29:11–13 (CSB)
Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on earth belongs to you. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom, and you are exalted as head over all. 12 Riches and honor come from you, and you are the ruler of everything. Power and might are in your hand, and it is in your hand to make great and to give strength to all. 13 Now therefore, our God, we give you thanks and praise your glorious name.
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