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Carregando... A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World (original: 2009; edição: 2009)de Paul E. Miller (Autor), David Powlison (Prefácio)
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A Praying Life is an honest look at the difficulties of prayer, unanswered prayers, and successes in prayer. Readers will appreciate Paul Miller's down-to-earth approach and practical nature. Parents will find his family-life experiences especially helpful. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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There were so many arcane and nebulous spiritualized terms that I was seriously mystified by much of what he wrote. Terms such as, “praying Christ into someone’s life;” and that his friend would, “See God in the face of Jesus Christ.” And, “put the Word [Bible] to work for you” by writing verses alongside your prayer requests. On long-term prayer he writes, "You cry out to God so long and so often that a channel begins to open up between you and God.” [WHAT!?] He says that prayer should be "in God's face, hoping, dreaming, asking. Prayer is feisty" (p. 79) With so many mystical phrases like these without any hint of a biblical basis, it became hard to read this book as anything more than, “The Memoirs of Paul Miller."
This is far from a theological study on prayer and is instead primarily a compilation of personal stories from his life and family. Most of the examples he uses are stories of "we faced this difficulty so we prayed and thankfully it didn't turn out as bad as it would have otherwise." Far from being a Biblical examination of prayer, he basically just repeats our need to be "childlike" in our prayers. The Bible actually has a lot to say about praying, unfortunately this book never takes a good, serious look at most of those passages.
I did appreciate the book's openness about cynicism as well as the main idea of prayer being a reflection of our helplessness and subsequent dependence on God. ( )