Dale Bruner gives some convicting words on prayer
as mission:
A creeping death sweeps over the mission of many churches in our time because, quite simply, prayer meetings have ceased.And beneath the death of prayer, at a deeper level, lies the death of a real belief that only Jesus literally saves people. Faith in Christ as sole savior has precipitously declined in mainline churches. But such faith is the mother of prayer, and prayer is the mother of mission.
From volume one of Bruner's
Matthew: A Commentary, commenting on Matthew 9:35-10:4. Emphasis in the original.
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