Reasons to add 'New Testament Prayers for Everyone' to your collection:
- Get Tom Wrights reliable, readable insights
- Benefit from his own translation from the original manuscripts
- Understand the key teachings of New Testament writers
- Find how the hopes and fears of the early Church compare to today's
- Make yourself an expert in the earliest written Christian prayers
- Find the through line from the apostles to your prayers today
Tom Wright on 'The Lord's Prayer':
"References to Jesus' own practice of private prayer are scattered throughout the Gospels and clearly reflect an awareness on the part of his first followers that this kind of private prayer - not simply formulaic petitions, but wrestling with God over real issues and questions - formed the undercurrent of his life and public work. The prayer that Jesus gave his followers embodies his own prayer life and his wider kingdom ministry in every clause."
There are many books about prayer, but this is the first by Tom Wright to cover all the key teachings and examples to be found in the New Testament.
Tom Wright on the Sermon on the Mount:
"Prayer is one of life's great mysteries. Most people pray at least sometimes; some people, in many very different religious traditions, pray a great deal. At its lowest, prayer is shouting into a void on the off-chance there may be someone out there listening. At its highest, prayer merges into love, as the presence of God becomes so real that we pass beyond words and into a sense of his reality, generosity, delight and grace.
For most Christians, most of the time, it takes place somewhere in between those two extremes. To be frank, for many people it is not just a mystery but a puzzle. They know they ought to do it but they aren't quite sure how."