You’ve read the
vision but this one question looms: how do we make it happen? Way back in the fourth century Saint Augustine said: we should pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended on us. We like that.
Why is it so important to us?
We know prayer’s an essential for the Christian life. But sometimes it feels like a mystery which is hard to fathom. At other times the question of how to get your group involved draws little more than stale ideas and blank looks.
We’ve got a feeling that prayer can help break poverty. We’re not saying that we can hold God to ransom or that if we just get enough nice words being prayed that we’ll eventually reach the tipping point. We believe that prayer can break poverty because it’s exactly what Jesus did – he prayed and he put right the wrongs of the world around him.
Take a look at Luke 18 and it’s clear that prayer is part of our mandate, part of the oxygen that fuels a healthy life of following Christ. We can’t ignore its importance any more than we can turn a blind eye to the command to love God and others with the zeal that we apply to ourselves.
All of this is a long way of saying this: we’re trying to raise our bar when it comes to prayer, particularly with young people. We’re aiming high, going for more than ‘good enough’. Are you in?