Buiding Church Leaders Home
Search By:
Advanced Search
Church RoleTopicFree Samples
Train LeadersAssess My ChurchConnect With LeadersRespond to CrisisMentor & DiscipleMultimediaStore
Home > Articles > Better Group Prayer
Better Group Prayer
How "vectoring" adds depth and strength to conversation with God.
Ben Patterson

Topics:Christian living, Discipleship, Fellowship, Intercessory prayer, Prayer, Pursuit of God, Unity
Filters:Bible study, Discipleship, Elder, Pastor, Prayer, Shepherd, Spiritual director, Worship
Purpose:Discipleship
References:Acts 4:31
Date Added:July 11, 2007

Sign up for our free Building Church Leaders newsletter:

Average Rating: Not yet rated


Submit Your Rating and Review:

Choose star rating:
Low High

Name:
Comments: 1000 character limit 
 


Leading a Group in Prayer
Practical insights for anyone who ever guides the prayer time in a corporate setting, from small groups to committees to large prayer gatherings.

Help for the Pastor’s Spouse
Being the pastor's wife isn't an easy job.



Why I Resist Accountability
Four reasons I avoid the relationships I need (and how I embrace them anyway).

Six Types of Small Groups to Help Churches
An excerpt from Leadership Handbook of Outreach and Care.

 2 of 2

For that reason, I think all-church prayer meetings should be significant worship events, taking place perhaps only monthly, rather than weekly.

Become the lead pray-er

If a church is going to become a praying church, the pastor must take the lead as the most visible pray-er in the congregation. This leadership cannot be delegated to others, for the people of the church will regard as central what the leader leads, and as peripheral what he or she does not lead.

The pastor should announce to the church the time and the place that he is beginning to pray, invite all to come who will come, and begin to pray with whomever God gives. (No complaining over how few may come at first, only rejoicing over who did come!)

And keep at it until the kingdom comes. Quite literally.

—Ben Patterson

Copyright © 1999 by the author or Christianity Today International/Leadership Journal. Click here for reprint information on Leadership Journal.