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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.
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Prologue: A Call to Prayer | p. 1 |
| The Nature of Christian Prayer | p. 8 |
| The Background to the Christian Concept of Prayer | p. 9 |
| Prayer and the Life of Jesus | p. 14 |
| Prayer in the New Testament Church | p. 23 |
| Christian Prayer and the Church of All Ages | p. 26 |
| How Petitionary Prayer "Works" | p. 31 |
| What Supplication "Effects" | p. 32 |
| Prayer and Modern Psychology | p. 36 |
| Prayer and Christian Theology | p. 43 |
| What Praying according to God's Will Means | p. 54 |
| The Characteristics of the Petitioner | p. 55 |
| The Characteristics of the Petition | p. 63 |
| How to Pray according to God's Will | p. 67 |
| The General Pattern | p. 67 |
| Praying in Situations of Christian Concern | p. 69 |
| Praying for the Sick | p. 84 |
| Praying Specifically | p. 90 |
| Persisting in Prayer | p. 93 |
| Jesus' Command to Persistency | p. 94 |
| The Importance of Persistency | p. 99 |
| The Persistent Attitude | p. 102 |
| Practicing Effective Prayer | p. 105 |
| Praying in Public Worship | p. 107 |
| Praying Alone | p. 111 |
| Praying Together | p. 116 |
| Epilogue: The Life of Prayer | p. 122 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 125 |
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ISBN: 9780802828477
ISBN-10: 0802828477
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 144
Published: May 2005
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2
x 0.8
Weight (kg): 0.227
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