A Prayer Strategy

Today we are meeting with some church prayer coordinators to develop an appropriate prayer strategy, or perhaps I should say, strategies, to undergird our effort to begin implementing the "future story" (see earlier posting). Prayer is an absolute necessity. Already a tremendous amount of time has been invested in prayer by our strategic focus team. Now, as we begin to tell the "future story," we want to enlist the believers in our churches in a greater prayer effort.
There is an old adage that says "prayer changes things." I think it is more accurate to say that "prayer changes us" and it is with this thought that our team recognized that without a heart change on the part of our church members, we would never be able to make any significant impact for Christ on our Montgomery area. When Jesus sent out the 72 in Luke 10, he first instructed them to pray. So, tonight, and tomorrow morning, we are meeting with these prayer coordinators to enlist their input in developing these strategies to engage our churches and their members in living into the "future story." Our desire is to see a Montgomery Missional Movement begin. More on that later.