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Re: How much time do you spend in prayer?
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Originally Posted by stmatthew
Carry on Daniel. I am not going to go down the bunny trail on this with you. If you believe that all the Apostles did was pray a 5 minute prayer we call the Lords Prayer, then you can continue in that belief.
The funny thing is, I start a thread with the intent to generate a desire for more prayer, and have to try and prove that we should pray more. Go figure.
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I think the point is, Matthew, that telling folks they need to pray a certain amount of minutes per day is not the way to lead them into a prayerful life. It leads them into tradition and ritual.
I agree that we should set aside a special time of day for focusing on God, reading the Word, talking to Him, etc. What I don't agree with is that we should limit that by assigning a time frame. What I have found is that if I am trying to fill up time--that is exactly what I do, but if I just go talk to God until I'm done--the time flies, and often I can spend way more than I first intended. OR, I might be back in the kitchen in just a few minutes.
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