The Essential Nature of Prayer

Tim Challies reviews what looks to be a stirring e-book on the life of Leonard Ravenhill: In Light of Eternity.

“He especially deplored the weakness of the praying of most local churches. He felt the strongest meeting of the church should be the church prayer meeting, but said that it was generally the weakest, if it even existed at all.” In his lifetime Ravenhill saw the daily or weekly prayer meeting disappearing from most local churches. This grieved him because he “directly connected the effectiveness of true ministry with the prayer life of the church.”

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