Interviews

REPLAY: Cultivating A Praying Church

with Paul Miller

Interviews

REPLAY: Cultivating A Praying Church

with Paul Miller

Paul E. Miller joins Michael to discuss his book, A Praying Church, and the true purpose and priority of a prayer meeting.

Excerpt From The Interview

“Prayer is not just one more activity of the Christian life. That’s why you don’t see prayer listed as a spiritual gift. For example, my wife and I pray together every morning. If you were to hear our prayers, you would say, ‘Paul, she prays better than you.’ And I would say yes. I describe the way she prays as coming into the airport.

When she’s praying, she’s coming in to land the plane. And I have to get to work. And we’ve been praying for 20 minutes, and just as I think the wheels are coming down, she goes around for it. She thinks of something else, and they’re really beautiful prayers. So why is there no gift of praying? The answer is there’s no gift of breathing. And the church has stopped breathing these last 50 years.”

About Paul Miller

Paul Miller is Executive Director of seeJesus, a global discipleship mission which he founded in 1999 to help Christians and non-Christians alike “see Jesus.” Today, seeJesus is working in over 30 countries and has books and interactive Bible study materials translated into more than a dozen languages.

Paul’s books and interactive Bible studies focus on seeJesus’ core themes: Jesus, love, and prayer. His first Bible-study based book, Love Walked Among Us, was released in 2001 and followed by the instant bestseller, A Praying Life, now in its second edition. More recent titles include a study of love through the book of Ruth called A Loving Life and J-Curve, which explores how the pattern of Jesus’ life—death followed by resurrection—should also be the pattern for our lives. The heartbeat of Paul’s teaching ministry is his series of interactive Bible studies including Person of Jesus, A Loving Life, Grace Through the Eyes of Jesus, and J-Curve.