When I visited, many of the church family were quite new Christians. Did it show at the prayer meeting. Oh Yes! The room was bursting at the seams with so many eager to be there. And they were practically falling over themselves to jump in as soon as someone else finished praying. No long awkward pauses here. But the thing that struck me the most was that these lovely young Christians, eager about their faith and their Lord, fully expected their prayers to be answered. 

The best evangelistic conversation I had last year wasn’t when I’d worked myself up to bravely mentioning the gospel. It was part of a normal chat while walking a friend back to her bus stop. She happened to ask me how long I’d been at my church (only a few years) which led to asking why I’d chosen that one when I moved (where I live, there are plenty to choose from). So I told her it was because of the prayer meeting…

I discovered years ago that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they pray, and it turns out that’s true about a church as well.

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