Open Letter to Friends

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                                                        Quotes from Letter:

"We're witnessing a mass slaughter of hearts. To be lost is to be alone. And loneliness rules. Nobody comes to Christ without prayer. Most churched people know little of prayer. I'm afraid a lot of people who sit on pews understand the logic of the Gospel, feel comforted by their service attendance, but few have been slain and healed in their hearts by the truth of God's love on the Cross. And for all our efforts in Jesus' name: We have very little to show for in the numbers of rescued hearts; Even less when it comes to both study of the Word and lifestyles of prayer - both must go together."

"Look around: We have produced too many who can enthusiastically tell you about our churches, our preachers, our church programs and even our true beliefs concerning God, but too few of us who can contagiously, humbly and persuasively share this wonderful Jesus who continually changes our hearts; Someone known intimately. It's one thing to tell somebody what we believe about Jesus, it's quite another to be able to introduce someone to our Best Friend."

"In the past we have been content with pushing for church attendance and building programs and have executed strategies to grow both, but we have not had a vision, standard or strategy for the homes of our attendees where the Holy Spirit truly prevails over the ministry of Hollywood. Our homes haven't been places of prayer in decades. Too many are alone and being swallowed by the darkness in their own homes."

"Ultimately, this is all heading toward a place where we are going to be cornered into seeking God. Truth will corner us. There is a selfish part of us which wishes to not go forward, but we know that seeking God is inevitable. The world is a very bad place, taking lives everyday and how we wish we could innoculate ourselves against such despair through pretension. But if we do not heed the call to seek God, the cost will be too great and the shame even greater."

"Generally speaking, in American public ministry, there is no experiential point of reference to diffuse the animosity that builds in our hearts toward each other over the course of time. We are helplessly at the mercy of our own pride and the pride of others. We are left to posture and pretend; we socialize, but seldomn fellowship. Churches and parachurch ministries need to return to a continual corporate and seeking kind of prayer which is where Love's leadership is truly found. True friends are not the ones who neccesarily go along with the prayerless program, but pray out of His love. Only people of prayer can be real friends. Their goals for us are that we might be closer to God. They cause us to search our own motives the whole way because they also search their own. Prayer-bathed friendships are not incidental to ministry, they are foundational. Jesus died for such friendships before he ever died for an organization. That's where the real authority of God begins, not on a legal document."

Parkcircleprayer.com is a parachurch and laypeople's effort, not a congregation, with the sole purpose of glorifying the Lord by supporting the divine institutions of the family and local congregation through the facilitation of community-wide prayer events which are led by Christian leaders who are concerned for the souls in the Park Circle - Remount Road and Rivers Avenue Area and who desire to please the Lord by seeking Him together.

...know them that labour among you... 1 Thessalonians 5:12 * ...pray for one another... James 5:6 * ...the eye cannot say to the hand I have no need of thee... 1 Corinthians 12:21 * ...there is one Body and one Spirit... Ephesians 4:4 * ...the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth... Ephesians 4:16 * ...I pray that they may be one with us so that the world will believe...John 17:21 * ...how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity...Psalm 133:1 "The purpose of life is companionship." *** "Worship is that form of companionship where we love on Him in response to His great love for us." *** "The most powerful drive in the human heart is the desire for companionship." *** "We inherited this drive from the One we were patterned after." *** "The difference between manipulation and leadership is motive." *** "Motive is purified and guided in the presence of God: Prayer." *** "Pride is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency, an attitude of self-entitlement and a motive for self-glorification." *** "Pride starts subtly and then turns into the aggressive enemy of real companionship" *** "The Cross and the presence of God brings fellowship (heart to heart), but the world offers only socializing (facade to facade)." *** "Every relationship has a foundation. The pride of public ministry has been a foundation for too many. At some point it consumes" *** "There is a difference between worshipping the idea that we worship God and actually worshipping God." *** "Why do we want to see prayer back in the schools, when it is no longer in our homes or churches?" *** "Corporate prayer around the Throne must return the center of church life if there is to be any hope for the masses." *** "Corporate prayer produces effective preaching, not preaching produces corporate prayer." *** "If we are so in the know, why do we no longer gather together to seek God, navigate through our haughty hearts to get a glimpse of God's heart and then pray in the lost?" *** "Christianity is not an enterprise, venture for self-discovery or political or civic organization. It is a Blood-bought fellowship of prayer focused on One." *** "Prayer-based friendships are the only ones that last." *** "Prayer-bathed friendships are not incidental to ministry, they are foundational." *** "Prayer is not a ministry of the Holy Spirit. It is the ministry" *** "It's one thing to tell somebody what we believe about Jesus, it's quite another to be able to introduce someone to our Best Friend." *** "We are more like Martha than Mary; More like Christian activists, than people of prayer." *** "We need unity in humility found at the foot of the Cross, not prideful uniformity that says: 'Look at us doing God's work'" "There has got to be a practical, excecutable strategy in place for us to dethrone the ministry of Hollywood in our homes and bring families and communities together via corporate prayer inspired by the Spirit. Technology is not the enemy; Our disobedient laziness is the enemy." ***