Pray All the Time: Why Church? What a congregation is for . . .

Friday, June 15, 2012

One more entry in the Why Church? discussion. Here's a reflection from Lutheran pastor and blogger Diane Roth:

http://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2012-06/what-congregation

About this Blog . . .

"Pray all the time" is Eugene Peterson's rendering of 1 Thessalonians 5:17 in The Message. I've chosen "Pray all the time" as the title of this new blog partly because it has always been one of my favorite verses. It is also something of an ironic choice of title because I feel like I am a long way from being a practitioner of unceasing prayer. Like the pilgrim who wandered all over Russia seeking to find out what it means to "pray without ceasing," I sometimes feel like I've been wandering through my life seeking the answer to the same question.

Incidentally, The Way of a Pilgrim is the English translation of a nineteenth-century Russian spiritual classic by an anonymous author. I first heard of it when I was reading J. D. Salinger's Franny & Zooey, and initially I assumed that J. D. Salinger had simply made it up. Then years later I found a small, paperback copy of The Way of a Pilgrim in a used bookstore.

I hope that this blog will become a contemporary chronicle of a pilgrim seeking to learn what it means to pray all the time.

Pray All the Time

Friday, June 15, 2012

Why Church? What a congregation is for . . .

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