Tony Evans Speaks Out on Prayer
Overview
We aren’t the first people to struggle with prayer. When Christ’s disciples asked, “Teach us to pray,” he responded by teaching them a few sentences which have come to be known as the Lord’s Prayer. Now, Tony Evans shows how this prayer can be a model for all of us.
God invites us to worship him and pray to him through Christ. The Lord’s Prayer is an example to show us how to pray for:
- God’s will
- Our needs and requests
- Pardon
- Protection from sin
- God’s glory
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Top Highlights
“Praying in secret means refusing to make a show out of prayer. It means shutting out anything and everything that keeps you from concentrating on God. A closed door refers to an undistracted environment for prayer.” (Page 10)
“The second kind of forgiveness is relational forgiveness. This is the forgiveness we are urged to pursue in 1 John 1:9, cleansing from the effects of our sin that cause a break in our fellowship and intimacy with our heavenly Father. God doesn’t deal with His children as a Judge, but as our Father. Although the legal issue of sin is settled once for all, the relational issue of sin has to be dealt with regularly.” (Page 32)
“Meaningless repetition’ means babble, and babble means thoughtless verbiage, saying the same words without any thought behind them.” (Page 11)
“The Lord’s Prayer is a marvelous example, an outline, of how to pray. It gives us a pattern for prayer.” (Page 7)
“The best way to avoid meaningless repetition is to continue getting to know God” (Page 11)
Clarity. Conscience. Convicting. These three words summarize my experience with Tony Evans. He never fails to speak with clarity to my conscience—convicting of both God’s love and my response.
—Max Lucado, preacher and teacher, Oak Hills Church of Christ
Tony Evans writes like he speaks—with clarity, practicality, and power.
—Ravi Zacharias, president, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries
- Title: Tony Evans Speaks out on Prayer
- Author: Tony Evans
- Publisher: Moody
- Publication Date: 2000
- Pages: 47
Tony Evans is Senior Pastor of Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, president of The Urban Alternative, and a widely-syndicated radio broadcaster. He graduated from Dallas Theology Seminary, where he was the first African-American to receive a doctorate in theology.
Dr. Evans' Urban Alternative ministry seeks to bring about spiritual renewal in urban America, and his radio broadcast, “The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans" airs in more than 500 outlets in the United States and over 40 countries.
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