As part of the ongoing reading and writing I'm doing on the topic of prayer, I've been reading a book from Jim Packer and Carolyn Nystrom, with a particularly 'blue' cover from IVP...
Cover aside, this book has been quite mixed, but there is a chapter on 'Joining In' that has been really resonating with me, not least for the way the authors powerfully tie prayer into our participation in God's life, the Trinity;
Cover aside, this book has been quite mixed, but there is a chapter on 'Joining In' that has been really resonating with me, not least for the way the authors powerfully tie prayer into our participation in God's life, the Trinity;
“The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit work to draw all Christians into active habitual togetherness, not only because this expresses the truth of our oneness in Christ but also because the divine plan is to use our togetherness as a means of our mutual blessing, as we each share what we have received through Christ”
p. 246, 'Praying: Finding Our Way from Duty to Delight", (IVP, 2006)
YES. This, among other things, is exactly what prayer, especially corporate prayer, is meant to draw us together into. Sharing Christ together. The truth of our oneness in Christ. An active, habitual, togetherness. For me, this observation and the rest of this chapter on prayer as 'Joining In', is very helpful.
Anyone make anything different of it?
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