When Prayer Has Stopped Working
When prayer has gone quiet, it may not be because faith has failed. It may be because prayer was never what you were told it was.
When prayer has gone quiet, it may not be because faith has failed. It may be because prayer was never what you were told it was.
Some of the most damaging things Christians hear do not sound harsh at first. They sound like grace. But somewhere in the sentence, the weight shifts back onto the hearer: be sorry enough, believe hard enough, change enough, prove enough. This piece looks at how the gospel gets quietly turned into law—and how to recognize the move when it happens.
The Christian life is not a performance review. You are not a sinner trying to earn sainthood. In Christ, you are both sinner and saint, all at once.