Paul E. Miller on prayerlessness as practical unbelief, and on praying like a child. This edition adds an expanded chapter on prayer cards and one on prayers of lament. Read more.
Prayer is so hard that unless circumstances demand it - an illness, or saying grace at a meal - most of us simply do not pray. We prize accomplishment and productivity over time spent praying, and even Christians experience this prayerlessness, a kind of practical unbelief that leaves us marked by fear, anxiety, joylessness and spiritual lethargy.
Paul E. Miller's answer is that prayer is about relationship rather than technique, and that the way in is to come as a child rather than as an expert. This edition includes an expanded chapter on the practical prayer cards that are a hallmark of the book's teaching, and a chapter on the need for and use of prayers of lament.
