For any that have interest, I have attached a pdf version of the dissertation I submitted in April 2013 to Asbury Theological Seminary on the topic of corporate prayer. I hope it proves helpful.
Blessings,
John Whitsett
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John graciously allowed me to interview him to discuss his doctoral findings more thoroughly. Attached is the link to the interview (printed on my website), so that everyone here can benefit from his wisdom and thoughts on prayer! Click to read, and there are more resources which he helped create that you can download for use in your churches. :-)
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Dr. John Whitsett's dissertation is an excellent resource on corporate prayer.
It is also possible that you may find some information in the latter lessons of the Class 'Praying Together'. Those lessons are also focused on aspects of corporate prayer--encouraging people to join together in corporate prayer. You can find those lessons in the group here on PrayNetwork in the group "Praying Together".
Also, you may find other information scattered throughout various discussions, blogs, and articles here on PrayNetwork.
If you are writing something for your blog--will you be sharing it here on PrayNetwork? Would like to see it.
Lewis,
You asked to see what I was writing for my blog on corporate prayer; please see the links in this discussion to my interview with John Whitsett, also on my blog page. You can visit the blog directly here: His Inscriptions. All the resources are free for use by prayer leaders and churches/ pastors, with John's permission. Thanks for following up!
Deborah Perkins :-)
Dr. John Whitsett's dissertation is an excellent resource on corporate prayer.
It is also possible that you may find some information in the latter lessons of the Class 'Praying Together'. Those lessons are also focused on aspects of corporate prayer--encouraging people to join together in corporate prayer. You can find those lessons in the group here on PrayNetwork in the group "Praying Together".
Also, you may find other information scattered throughout various discussions, blogs, and articles here on PrayNetwork.
If you are writing something for your blog--will you be sharing it here on PrayNetwork? Would like to see it.
Dr. John Whitsett's dissertation is an excellent resource on corporate prayer.
It is also possible that you may find some information in the latter lessons of the Class 'Praying Together'. Those lessons are also focused on aspects of corporate prayer--encouraging people to join together in corporate prayer. You can find those lessons in the group here on PrayNetwork in the group "Praying Together".
Also, you may find other information scattered throughout various discussions, blogs, and articles here on PrayNetwork.
If you are writing something for your blog--will you be sharing it here on PrayNetwork? Would like to see it.
Hi John,
I am writing an article on corporate prayer for my blog next week and seem to have lost your email address. We had discussed talking briefly in January and I'd love to hear from you, even if briefly. Would you resend your email to me at HisInscriptions - at - gmail.com when you have a moment? Thanks in advance!
Deborah Perkins
John,
What a comprehensive study on corporate prayer! I read your dissertation with great interest tonight and really enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing. I agree that corporate prayer is a measure of church health just as individual prayer is an indicator of personal spiritual health. It makes sense that in a highly individualized and secularized society, we would see a decline in both corporate prayer and its fruit: the Presence of God.
I am a Massachusetts resident and have recently been studying the writings of Jonathan Edwards from the 1st Great Awakening, which you covered here. Your research creates an extremely valuable overview of church prayer history, especially with regard to praying for revival.
I write almost exclusively about prayer and knowing God at HisInscriptions.com, (also posting the blogs here), and would be very interested in interviewing you for an article on corporate prayer to include on my site, if you are interested. I'd love to work with you to create a shorter, interview-style Q & A that would highlight some of the key thoughts you have concerning corporate prayer. Please let me know if you might have time to do this by phone, perhaps in January when the holiday busyness is past! :-)
Blessings,
Deborah Perkins
Hi Chuck--
I hope you can work through some of the academic minutiae and extract some insights that are helpful. If it proves beneficial in any way, it helps to redeem the investment of energy and effort.
Blessings,
John
John--I have finally gotten through your dissertation--You have made some interesting observations. One area that was not touched on, is the role of an intercessor in encouraging corporate prayer--which would include encouraging the pastor, and others in leadership, Did you find any of the churches you interviewed sharing about the role of intercessors and corporate prayer?
The work of intercessors is often behind the scenes, but when they join together and pray in agreement with God's Word, much wonderful change that can encourage corporate prayer can occur.
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I would like to share that I appreciated your sharing how brokenness was a major factor in moving leaders to consider corporate prayer.
Question--did you observe in your research, when brokenness occurred on the part of a leader--how did the leader encourage a cultural change in the church?
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