Are We Ever Too Busy To Pray?
January 2nd, 2007 · Posted in Christianity, Practical Ministry, Prayer, Religion, SPIRITUALITY · 0 CommentsBen Patterson at Leadership Magazine has a great article on Our Chief Work. His main point is that, when we become busy, prayer is the first thing we seem to drop to make room for everything else.
This is how he sees the problem:
Activists that we are, we all feel there is so much to do and so little time to do it. A sign of our times, religiously, is the fact that Hans Küng’s otherwise brilliant theological work On Being a Christian did not have a chapter in it on prayer. When asked about its absence, he apologized and admitted it was a serious oversight. But, he explained, at the time of writing he was so harassed by the Vatican and busy trying to meet his publisher’s deadline that he simply forgot. That is my point exactly. Prayer is always the first thing to go when we get caught up in the world’s pace. And only prayer can deliver us from that pace.
That is indeed something we all should be careful about!
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