This concerns how to discern whether a church is a praying church. This is from Emilie Griffin's Clinging: The Experience of Prayer
People who pray, really pray, don't talk about it much. After you have looked into the matter carefully, you may be able to puzzle out who is really praying....In order to find a person who prays, you have to look for clues: charitableness, good temper, patience, a fair ability to handle stress, resonance, openness to others. What happens to people who pray is that their inward life gradually takes over from their outward life.
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This really hits on what I was thinking of writing. All of these things take time. Plenty of it.
II never know what to suggest to visitors except to take time to know us, but hat always sounds like a sales pitch.
I have taught these things to my people in the event they ever to find a new church, say they move or fail to see my every word as law.
It sucks to be on the end of the visitor, invest the time, and realize that this is not the place for you. How much time before you give up? How much time before you accept the church with all its faults and dive in? Which faults are compromisable?
Arggghhh!!! I do not want to go through this process again.
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