Do You Want the Church to Grow?
By Pastor Benjamin Glaser - Posted at Thoughts From Parson Farms: Understanding Prayer's Role in Winning Souls For the Kingdom Good Morning, Today for our look at the Directory of Public Worship we are going to be talking about the work of the gospel in converting sinners in and through the pastoral prayer. It is an element of our corporate calling out to God in the service of Christ through the minister’s meditation whereby we testify to our desire that there be more believers tomorrow than there are today. It seems like a captain obvious moment to want that. However, a church should have a hope of spiritual work in all that they do, and that especially goes for the pastoral prayer. We’ve talked before about how as the preacher prays at this moment in the worship service he’s speaking for the whole congregation as one. A church should want to grow, and to grow in such a way that men and women who have never previously heard the gospel message might do so and then blessedly throug
