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  1. When I pray by myself, my prayers usually fall into 1 of 2 areas. Either (what I consider) long and involved prayers (complicated, redundant, half-thoughted, over fretted, to name a few aspects) or very short specific prayers about someone, something, some situation, and (VERY important) THANKS for everything from a magnificent sky to the roof not leaking to getting home safely, etc. BUT, when I pray in congregational worship I realize there is a TON of responsibility! I’m not just praying for me, but I’m praying for over 100 other people as well, and I’m addressing the creator of EVERYTHING, not some ceo, not the president, but GOD!

    • Good thoughts Ted…and interesting insight into your personal prayer life. I always appreciate your prayers in our worship assembly.

  2. When I sat in church with young active children who had been sitting for quite some time I would sometime find myself getting annoyed when someone would get up and then lead a rather long closing prayer as I am trying to just keep my kids quiet for a few more minutes and not strangle them, and I would not be able to concentrate on the prayer at all and I found myself resenting when that person got up to pray. Later we started having small groups and he was in our small group and we let our kids play in another room so we could get what we needed out of that study and I grew an admiration for the man involved. When I could concentrate on the sincerity of his prayer and see his heart where it came from it had so much more meaning. I do feel that women need to be taught to pray somehow (not in the worship or in a mixed setting) maybe at a younger age or something but I find we don’t have many women who are willing to lead the prayer in ladies’ class or when several of us go out to eat. I know that I will always be leading the prayer at lunch because of the several of us that go most don’t feel comfortable doing this. I find that sad. Another thought provoking post, thanks Jon.