How This Buddhist Practice Is Helping My Christian Life.
<p>Prayer is a conversation with God.</p>
<p>It’s not a request hotline where you ask for your enemies to be smite, smote and ground down into smithereens.</p>
<p>This might seem obvious to some people, but growing up in a Pentecostal church, the phrase <em>‘die by fire’</em> was very common during prayers.</p>
<p>Praying was described as warfare and the expectation was that it was meant to be loud, unbridled, and tumultuous.</p>
<p>No wonder a church I went to years ago rung a handbell every few minutes as we prayed, whipping the congregation into a frenzy.</p>
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