Bringing our needs and desires to God has always stood at the heart of Christian prayer. But why is petitioning God so important? In Prayer: The Cry for the Kingdom noted theologian Stanley Grenz points to petitionary prayer as a crucial way for us to be involved with God’s work in history. At the center of such prayer, Grenz argues, is the cry to God that his kingdom might come into the world.
Grenz explores key questions that many Christians ask: What does it mean to pray “according to God’s will”? Should we persist in petitioning God for our needs? Does prayer really influence God? In the process of addressing these questions, Grenz offers practical guidance on praying effectively and challenges the contemporary church to recapture what it means to be a church that prays.
Revised and completely rewritten, with the inclusion of additional material, and now featuring an insightful foreword by Eugene Peterson, Grenz’s Prayer: The Cry for the Kingdom will help readers from every Christian tradition to foster a richer personal and communal life of prayer.
Contents:
PROLOGUE: A Call to Prayer
1. The Nature of Christian Prayer
The Background to the Christian Concept of Prayer
Prayer and the Life of Jesus
Prayer in the New Testament Church
Christian Prayer and the Church of All Ages
2. How Petitionary Prayer "Works"
What Supplication "Effects"
Prayer and Modern Psychology
Prayer and Christian Theology
3. What Praying according to God's Will Means
The Characteristics of the Petitioner
The Characteristics of the Petition
4. How to Pray according to God's Will
The General Pattern
Praying in Situations of Christian Concern
Praying for the Sick
Praying Specifically
5. Persisting in Prayer
Jesus' Command to Persistency
The Importance of Persistency
The Persistent Attitude
6. Practicing Effective Prayer
Praying in Public Worship
Praying Alone
Praying Together
EPILOGUE: The Life of Prayer
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ISBN: 9780802828477
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: WM B EERDMANS PUB CO - published 15/05/2005
Format: Paperback