NEVER PRAY AGAIN
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...