Teach Us
To Pray

 

Series Overview

The disciples asked Jesus, “How then should we pray?” Like the disciples, we often have misconceptions and fears around prayer. Gather with us as we look at how Jesus taught us to pray, and ultimately, as we are transformed into a people of prayer.

Community Guides

Follow along with the Bridgetown Community Guides for this series.

  • Prayer is about bringing to God what is in us, not what we think should be in us. The invitation is to pray as you can rather than as you think you should.

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  • The invitation of prayer is the invitation to be still — to stop playing God over your own life for a moment. To put productivity and busyness aside for a bit, to release control, and to return to the created order.

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  • When Jesus was on earth, he taught his disciples to pray the well-known and ancient prayer we have come to call “The Lord’s Prayer” or the “Our Father.” When Jesus taught his disciples about prayer, he didn’t tell them to pray more or to pray harder, but to pray differently.

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  • The motive behind all true intercessory prayer is love for the other. It is the distribution of God’s resources to those around us, as we rule and reign with him. Intercession restores our world and restores the God-given identity breathed into us first.

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  • This Guide functions differently than the others in this series because we believe that God did something significant and beautiful and the Holy Spirit Conference. We acknowledge that the Spirit is not contained by any single gathering, so others are welcome to share their experience of what God’s been doing in their lives during this time.

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  • If you pray for only big things, limiting your conversation with God to the noble requests, you live a cramped spiritual life. The kind of prayer Jesus had in mind roots us in gratitude instead of control. We want to practice praying in a way that wages war on control and plants seeds of gratitude in our soul.

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  • The reward of believing in grace and practicing confession is that the parts of our stories we most want to edit or erase all together become the very parts of our stories we’d never take back and never stop telling.

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  • Our formation should have global consequences. And one of the ways in which we partner with God as he makes all things new is prayer.

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