Why Most Christians Don’t Know How To Pray

What if you were worthy to talk to God the moment you woke up, regardless of your guilt or spiritual state? Gene Edwards delivers a radical, necessary message challenging the foundational habits of the modern Christian prayer life, contending that the current practice is often “quite shallow” and obligatory rather than deeply relational. He asserts that most prayers are focused on the self—”human directional”—leading to an exhausting, “eternal pleading” for God to grant things already established in Christ. Gene Edwards lays down a profound challenge: to expunge artificial religious vocabulary and even the word “help” from prayer, recognizing that asking for help implies we are trying to live the Christian life, rather than allowing Christ to live it through us. Listen as he calls us to reverse the center of our spiritual lives, stand in the reality of our worthiness through the blood of Jesus Christ, and approach the Lord in our own unique, unborrowed voice.

Atlanta 1998 Conference – Re-thinking the Lord’s Prayer Part 1