Here’s the video:

Anecdote time: I attended a small group session in high school. It was about twenty teenage boys and a leader. During prayer time we went around and offered our requests,which the leader concisely wrote down. He then assigned each person a prayer request and literally told us to keep it short and to the point.

He, after all, had an agenda to get to.

And to turn it around on myself: I often pray in quick lists. It’s a great way to order my thoughts. I also recognize how stifling it is to spiritual growth, but seriously, it’s a lot easier coming to God with a list of “fix this, fix that” things than to sit and listen.

And to play dissenting voice for a bit: is praying in such a way necessarily a bad thing?

Other thoughts?

HT: Scotteriology.