ChristopherPaul
Puritan Board Senior
What is the proper method for conducting prayer meetings? Is there a proper method?
What are some suggestions for leading a prayer meeting?
Professor R. Scott Clark posted an interesting article several years ago that I found quite interesting. It is written by Henry M. Lewis and published in the Nicotine Theological Journal. The following is an excerpt from his introductory statement:
What are some suggestions for leading a prayer meeting?
Professor R. Scott Clark posted an interesting article several years ago that I found quite interesting. It is written by Henry M. Lewis and published in the Nicotine Theological Journal. The following is an excerpt from his introductory statement:
Why is it that when Presbyterians gather for prayer they look more like Quakers than heirs of the magisterial Reformation? To be sure, Presbyterian prayer meetings possess a little less spontaneity than the Quaker service since someone is assigned the opening and concluding prayer. But in between Presbyterians rely on the Spirit to lead them in the fashion of Quakers, with one person praying for this request another for that, until the length of the silence becomes unbearable and the designated supplicant utters the concluding prayer. Whatever allowances we might want to make for informal gatherings of the saints, surely the inheritors of a theological tradition that stresses decency and order might want to reconsider a spiritual discipline (the trendy way of putting it) that is inherently indecent and disorderly.