Saturday, January 28, 2017

Living Prayer

The following came to me this morning in an email from Plough Publishing House.  I was not familiar with Jacques Ellul, but have learned he was a prolific author and professor, born January 6, 1912 and died on May 19, 1994.​ He was involved in the French Resistance of World War II, another rather serious time in the recent history of our world.  Thankfully, we can draw strength from the determined faithful who have come before us. Guidance is available as we face our times.      

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Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement. The latter (verbalization) can only be the secondary expression of the relationship with God, an overflow from the encounter between the living God and the living person.
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Jacques Ellul, Prayer and Modern Man 
    
   

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