Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
"Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do." —from the Introduction
Activists Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove show how prayer and action must go together. Their exposition of key Bible passages provides concrete examples of how a life of prayer fuels social engagement and the work of justice. Phrases like "give us this day our daily bread" and "forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors" take on new meaning when applied to feeding the hungry or advocating for international debt relief.
If you hope to see God change society, you must be an ordinary radical who prays—and then is ready to become the answer to your own prayers.
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- Recovers the essence of truly prayerful life
- Focuses on Jesus' prayer for the church in John 17
- Explores what it looks like to make the Lord's Prayer a model for daily life
Part I. The Lord's Prayer
- An Invitation to Beloved Community
- Begging for God?s Economy
- Temptations Along the Way
Part II. John 17
- Love and Unity for the Sake of the World
- Praying as a Peculiar People
Part III. Ephesians 1:15-23
- Growing Deeper in Spiritual Wisdom
- Receiving Our Inheritance
God always raises up new and courageous voices when the church is tempted to forget its own gospel. Here are two of those voices--and two who have been made into the answer to our own fervent prayers.
Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Who learns more fully about the importance of prayer than folks living in Christian community and engaged in social activism? The authors of this wonderful little book share graciously and truthfully from the spiritual wisdom they have gathered.
Christine D. Pohl, professor of social ethics, Asbury Theological Seminary, author of Making Room
Not everyone will agree with every particular detail of biblical interpretation in this book by Claiborne and Wilson-Hartgrove, but no one can deny the truth of their main argument: God is calling each and all of us to be eager agents fulfilling His purposes in the world! This book compels us passionately to ask, in the power of the Holy Spirit, 'How am I "putting legs on my prayers"?' This is a tested book and a necessary one!
Marva J. Dawn, teaching fellow in Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, and author of Unfettered Hope, Joy in Divine Wisdom and My Soul Waits
- Title: Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals
- Authors: Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
- Publisher: IVP
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Pages: 120
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Bible › Prayers--History and criticism; Prayer › Christianity; Spiritual life; Christian life; Church and social problems
- ISBNs: 9780830878208, 9780830836222, 0830878203, 0830836225
- Resource ID: LLS:9780830878208
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T21:23:32Z