Sermon Discussion Guides

1.  What holds people back in their prayer life?
2. Why do people hesitate to bring everything to God in prayer?
3. Describe how prayer and faith are related.
4. What are the 'big' things we ought to be praying for right now?
5. What are the 'little' things we ought to be praying for every day?
6. Every day this week pray for each of your neighbors, especially those who are not in church.

1. How does the 'Lord's Prayer' guide us in our prayer life?
2. What are your current struggles or successes in developing a prayer life?
3. Walk through the Lord's prayer and note each of the sections, which is natural for you, and which is challenging for you? Why?
4. Describe a time when the Lord's Prayer was particularly helpful for you.
5. Pray the Lord's Prayer through three times, first time very quickly, then slow down the next time through, then very slowly and intentionally the third time. On the third time through, pause a minute or more in silence after each section.

1. What keeps people from having a meaningful prayer life?
2. What are the benefits to praying regularly?
3. In your own words answer the question, "Why Pray?"
4. What will you do this week to make prayer a priority?