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Introduction to Pray Now
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"We
have our beginnings in relationships. There is
no point at which we are unrelated, to the fabric
of creation or to those around us. And Holy Scripture
not only affirms that, from the beginning (Genesis),
but presents story after story of encounter and
learning about what follows on such truths. For
relationships are soured as often as they are
blessed: human connectedness, and disconnectedness,
is to be worked at.
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Pray Now 2009 offers a sampling of how we
may read some of these Scriptural resources. There is
a gentle insistence that with Scripture before us, the
reading task must engage us. As has been famously remarked,
the books of the Bible read us as much as we read them,
and the stories therefore are not so much long, long
ago and far, far away as surprisingly relevant to our
personhood. We do well to linger with the thoughts they
evoke. Prayer, after all, is the readiness for God to
communicate with us, and not simply time for us to do
all the talking.
We are indebited to the writing team who have put together
Pray Now 2009. We are all of us in relationships
and we ought to be in relationships. There is a critical
moral dimension here. Life does not stand still, and
the paths we choose to follow may bring blessing or
curse. How we conduct ourselves towards others is very
obviously an arena of our influence. It makes a great
deal of difference how we respond to those around us.
I hope very much that the work of the contributors on
the Biblical material here presented will furnish rich
encouragement to all who will pray and read with them.
Pray now!"
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The Rev Dr Peter
Donald
Convener, Task Group on Worship and Doctrine
Mission and Discipleship Council |
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How to order
Pray Now is produced each
year by the Office for Worship and Doctrine, part of the
Mission and Discipleship Council, as an accompaniment
to private and family prayers. It is published on its
behalf by Saint Andrew Press, the Church's publishing
house.
Copies of Pray Now
for 2009, priced at £4.99 and including a cd,
are available from Saint Andrew Press via our online
shop. Discount on bulk orders is offered by the
Office of Worship and Doctrine - 5 to 24 copies gives
10% off and more than 25 gives 25% off. To order click
here.
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