Quote of Note #202: The Necessity of Prayer

~ gachorpenning

“God opens this road to us; he commands us to pray. Thus it is not possible to say ‘I shall pray’ or ‘I shall not pray,’ as if it were an act according to our own good pleasure. To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.”

Karl Barth, Prayer, 2nd Edition (Don E. Saliers, ed., Sara Terrien, trans.). Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1985, pages 35-36.

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I am a husband, father, and grandfather. The southwestern Pennsylvania is currently home, though I've called several other places home before this. I maintain a YouTube channel of Bible teaching videos and a podcast of Bible teaching audio. I like to make things out of wood and other materials. I like taking photographs and use a lot of them in my blog posts. For thirty-nine years, I served as a pastor of churches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York.

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