Prayer - Week 3: "Learning To Pray Like Jesus"
One of the many things I've learned about prayer is that most of us are fairly self-centered about our prayer life. When I was a kid we attended a church that held "watch night" services on New Year's Eve. Basically, it was a fundamentalist Baptist New Year's Eve party spent singing hymns, listening to a really long sermon, maybe watching an evangelistic family film like The Burning Hell , and then spend an hour or so "praying in the New Year." I remember hearing people at the watch night service praying for Jesus to return that moment. They begged God to start the Rapture presumably so that they would be discovered in church when Jesus came back. They would also spend a lot of time praying for friends and family members who weren't saved, and for God to punish the wicked, unrepentant and unchurched masses. I sort of prayed that God would wait to start the Rapture until after I had learned to drive and kissed an actual girl. ...