Stephen Barkley
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While rereading a classic by Richard Foster: Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home, I was once again reminded of the main purpose of prayer.
“Prayer changes things,” people say. It also changes us. The latter goal is the more imperative. The primary purpose of prayer is to bring us into such a life of communion with the Father that, by the power of the Spirit, we are increasingly conformed to the image of the Son.
Do you agree or disagree with this one? What’s more important: changing the world, changing God’s mind, or changing ourselves?
I agree, that prayer changing us individually is most important. It’s hard to discuss in a few words, but as individuals are changed at the core, then the world as a whole will be under His direction, willfully. Foster is becoming one of my favorite authors; I have just ordered his book on prayer that you mentioned.
I’m glad you ordered that one. It’s one of his best, along with “Celebration of Discipline”, and “The Challenge of the Disciplined Life”.