02/15/2009
Colossians 1:9-14
Generally speaking, do our prayers for one another sound like Paul’s prayers for his fellow believers? Maybe we could say that he prayed that way because he was an apostle. “But we live in the real world. We don’t live in some high-brow, theological seventh heaven like Paul, off somewhere in some seminary using words like “propitiation” and “justification” and stuff. We have real prayer requests for the real world. Like prayer for healing and for guidance about what I should study in college, and who I should marry, and whether I should home school my kids, and for salvation for my family and church growth and stuff. And for safety when we visit the relatives and stuff. And that the car will stay together. We don’t use words like “redemption” and stuff when we pray. We use real words, mostly one-syllable words, and we talk about REAL stuff here in the real world! We don’t get into all that deep stuff that Paul talked about.”
Why does Paul pray the way he does? Was Paul’s prayer just a bunch of hard to understand theological “stuff”? Or was it about the real world in which we live? Is he just trying to show off his own deep spirituality? Or did he pray as he did for fellow Christians out of necessity?
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