The Prayer

Posted on January 23, 2014 
Filed under Opinion, Theology

David Mansfield“Should I pray for a parking spot near the shopping mall entrance or close to the church door?

Should I pray about that swimming costume I’m dying to buy or the twenty-function vegetable peeler I just saw advertised on TV that would make me more like a Masterchef? …

Is not this kind of praying, and the view of spiritual reality that lies behind, it barely more than half a degree of separation from the prosperity theology that has blighted parts of the church for too long?”

– David Mansfield writes about Prayer at SydneyAnglicans.net.

Related:

A Softer Prosperity Gospel: More Common Than You Think – David Schrock at 9 Marks.

Kingdom-advancing prayer – Ray Ortlund at The Gospel Coalition quotes Tim Keller.