Over at Allelon there is an article about missional prayer. As a UM, I have a feeling that while we might talk quite a bit about prayer, we talk more than we pray. My experience is that most of the UMs I’ve run into don’t seem to pray that much. Instead, we are way too busy. We are also way to pragmatic to pray. After all, most would say that spending 30 minutes doing something is much more effective than taking 30 minutes to truly pray. For some reason we have fallen for the idea that prayer is something that is good, but there are more important things we could do with our time. How many times have we decided that instead of having a board meeting we will meet and pray?

I know these are broad and general statements, but I believe they hold true. We say all the right things about prayer, but my question is, do we really pray? Of course we might spend time sharing our ‘prayer lists’ with God, but what about deep conversation with God? What about prayer that goes beyond words?
Perhaps it is time for all of us to take prayer more seriously; in our private life, our family life and especially our church life. I’m convinced that to live missionally we must first rediscover the power and practice of prayer. When we do, who knows what we will discover.

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