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NEVER PRAY AGAIN

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http://www.jrdkirk.com/2014/05/20/never-pray/ MAY 20, 2014   J. R. DANIEL KIRK 3 COMMENTS I have grown up hearing language of “mobilizing” God’s people through prayer, of prayer being like the gas that fills up our spiritual vehicles so that we can run off in service of God. But what if… What  if prayer isn’t the great mobilizer of God’s people, but the great immobilizer? What if worship and contemplation aren’t the centrifuges that throw us out into the world, but the centripetal forces that suck us only and ever deeper into ourselves? Those are the questions we’re asked to entertain in  Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work  by Aric Clark, Doug Hagler, and Nick  Larson . This post is  part  of a blog tour for the book (for which I was provided with a free electronic copy). Though the provocative title suggests that  leaving  behind prayer provides the book with its energy, in reality the gra...