(Re)Understanding Prayer by Kyle Lake Quotes

Prayer…is difficult to fake (10)

Want to find out what someone thinks of God? Listen to the word that they pray and how they pray it. (11)

In the end you could have misunderstandings about of a number of things that unbeknownst to you radically shape the way you relate with God (11).

At the heart of prayer, we must be aware of God’s end goal for our lives—that we are continually becoming fully present, fully alive learners of Christ (17).

Some….truly want prayer to be nothing more than dictation (17).

It’s become difficult for us to imagine God wanting us to make decisions, both big and small. And why would God want such a thing? Because God’s end goal is that we become mature learners of Christ. (Mt. 28:19-20) (18).

I’ve listened to some people pray and thought that , surely, they’re about to break into song. It’s like they’re human airplanes slowly achieving liftoff. Starting slow…picking up speed, more speed, faster, Faster, FASTER….Liftoff! Not this is odd. It’s not only odd, its freakish. Why would God create you with a distinct personality and require you to pray apart from it? (24).

One of the dangers of denominationalism is that you can be prone to think of God as party leader of your own point of view (33).

Allow the Scripture to become a member of the local church community where the sacred text functions as a living organism that baffles, mystifies, affirms, confuses, and convicts. Rather than standing over Scripture to divide and conquer, we sit beneath it with intrigue. (48)

Prayer is what happens when you are no longer conscious of how you look or how you sound. It is the uninhabited space where costumes and scripts are laid aside. (51-52)

It is when are prayers have no thoughts of spiritual upward mobility that we begin to find our way. (52)

In order for us to be people of the truth from the inside out, we must develop a constant suspicion toward the very thing in which we are involved—religion. (53).