I gave a talk, or led a discussion, or something, this morning about prayer. Someone asked a question and I wanted to give it a better answer here, since I wasn’t ready on the spot (like I should have been!). The question was: why pray? If God is going to give us good things anyway, why pray? And how do we understand the obvious fact that when we pray for things, sometimes it works out and sometimes it (often tragically) doesn’t? So I want to give this a better answer.
On prayer
On prayer
On prayer
I gave a talk, or led a discussion, or something, this morning about prayer. Someone asked a question and I wanted to give it a better answer here, since I wasn’t ready on the spot (like I should have been!). The question was: why pray? If God is going to give us good things anyway, why pray? And how do we understand the obvious fact that when we pray for things, sometimes it works out and sometimes it (often tragically) doesn’t? So I want to give this a better answer.