BECOMING the ANSWER
to Our PRAYERS
Prayer for Ordinary Radicals
By Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
A number of years ago, after Luke had taken a college January trip to visit several church oriented sites in the east and had visited Shane Claiborne at The Simple Way, I came across this book on becoming the answer to our prayers. It seemed like a good concept, I read through it quickly, and set it aside. This past summer I wanted to refer to it when preparing a sermon for church, but I couldn't find the book. Imagine my surprise when on a Habitat trip to Kalispell, I discovered it tucked away on a shelf in our trailer! I decided to revisit the book during November.
My prayer image is a collage of prayer and action...or putting my prayers into ACTION! I tried to come up with some concrete action I could take each day in response to one of the prayers written. In these Covid times of isolation, that wasn't always easy or what I really wanted to do - emails and donations feeling somewhat impersonal. But writing it down in a public way forced me to actually DO IT!
How can we all take the step from believer to servant or as Jesus puts it in Matthew 25...from goat to sheep?
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: THE LORD'S PRAYER
Chapter 1 - An Invitation to Beloved Community
Chapter 2 - Begging for God's Economy
Chapter 3 - Temptations Along the Way
PART TWO: JESUS' PRAYER IN JOHN 17
Chapter 4 - Love and Unity for the
Sake of the World
Chapter 5 - Praying As a Peculiar People
PART THREE: EPHESIANS 1:15-23
Chapter 6 - Growing Deeper in Spiritual Wisdom
Chapter 7 - Receiving Our Inheritance
EPILOGUE
