Prioritizing Prayer Time

As a small group leader, you know that prayer time is one of the three key elements of our small group model (fellowship, Bible study, and prayer), and that group prayer is an essential part of a healthy group. But if your group is like many others, you may have found that your group's prayer time leaves something to be desired. Perhaps your prayer time has become an afterthought, squeezed into the last five minutes before everyone leaves. Perhaps group members are not participating. Or maybe prayer time is just dry--even boring. Our hope is that all small groups--yours included--would experience rich corporate prayer and value their group's prayer time. The goal of this resource is to help you: 1) Understand and articulate the value of prayer time in the small group setting; 2) Identify the underlying causes of unsatisfying group prayer time; 3) Take practical steps to address those causes and build richer prayer times.

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