Sales or Marketing: How Should the Church Function?
Our task is to yield to the Spirit in such a way as to display the “Imago Dei”, image of God in us. It is Christ who attracts. It is God’s work that we believe.
1) Importance of prayer – Prayer: What’s It All About?
intensity, union, and communion that will radically alter the way we live our lives….Prayer above all else is conversation with God. It is the primary speech of the true self to the true God.
Biblical Words Related to Prayer
Prayer is communication between the soul and what that soul considers divine. For me divinity is found in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, Christianity’s Trinity. To whom the soul prays matters.
דָּרַשׁ, daw-rash’; To Trust, To Seek – Submissive Aspect of Prayer
דָּרַשׁ, daw-rash’; a prim. root; prop. to trust or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by impl. to seek or ask; spec. to worship -ask, *at all, care for, *diligently, inquire, make inquisition, [necro -] mancer, question, require, search, seek [for, out], *surely.
ζητω, dzay-teh’-o; To Seek
ζητω, dzay-teh’-o; of uncert. affirm.; to seek (lit. or fig.) spec. (by Heb.) to worship (God), or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life): – be (go) about, desire, endeavor, enquire (for), require, (*will) seek (after, for, means).
ἐκζητέω, ek-zay-teh’-o, To Search Out
ἐκζητέω, ek-zay-teh’-o to search out, i.e. (fig) investigate, crave, demand, (by Hebr.) worship: -en (re-) quire, seek after (carefully, diligently).