Praying in Public: A Guidebook for Prayer in Corporate Worship
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
A Comprehensive Guide to Corporate Prayer.
Leading corporate prayer is an intimidating experience. Many Christians know the experience all too well: standing before the congregation, not knowing what to say or how to say it, and fumbling through the prayer. What they need is a simple, step-by-step guide on how to pray thoughtfully and boldly in public.
Praying in Public by Pat Quinn is a comprehensive handbook designed to help Christians think about, prepare, and pray biblically rich, gospel-centered prayers as an act of corporate worship. Surveying examples of historical prayers such as the Latin Liturgy, the prayers of John Calvin, and the Westminster Directory as well as his own corporate prayers, Quinn offers 7 guiding principles for effective public prayer. Praying in Public brings clarity to congregational prayer so that praying in public will be a source of joy instead of a source of fear.
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- Designed to help Christians think about, prepare, and pray biblically rich, gospel-centered prayers as an act of corporate worship
- Offers 7 guiding principles for effective public prayer
- Provides a comprehensive handbook on prayer
- Introduction
- Adoration, Confession, and Supplication
- Bible-Saturated Prayer
- Trinitarian Prayer
- Thoughtful and Reverent Prayer
- Gospel-Centered Prayer
- Theological Prayer
- Well-Prepared Prayer
- Prayers of Adoration
- Prayers of Confession
- Prayers of Supplication
- Composite Prayers
Part 1: Overview and Principles
Part 2: Sample Prayers
Top Highlights
“We need to be reminded often that sin against a holy God is not merely making mistakes or breaking some rules; it is blasphemy (we set ourselves up as rival gods), treason (we rebel against the only legitimate authority … in wartime!), adulterous betrayal (we regularly cheat on our divine bridegroom), corruption (our uncleanness stinks to high heaven), and contempt (we despise the Lord who created and redeemed us). Sin, both original and actual, is serious and, even though we have been born again and become new creations, we have much to confess every day.” (Pages 32–33)
“In his book Speaking Truth in Love, biblical counselor David Powlison encourages us to pray three types of supplications: prayers to change circumstances, prayers to change us, and prayers to change everything.3 We could call them circumstantial, transformational, and kingdom prayers.” (Page 34)
“If prayer is to be a vital part of the church, it requires leaders who are not only committed to prayer in their own lives but are also thoughtful and deliberate in how they lead others in prayer. Sustained patterns of rich, biblical corporate prayer don’t just happen. They must be planned, and they must be led.” (Page 12)
“We have equated a good heart with good prayers and have confused spontaneity with spirituality” (Page 12)
“So while some would say that including confession in our worship services is negative and damaging to self-esteem, the truth is that without a time of confession, a worship service has no real integrity.” (Page 33)