Not a city-by-city, stadium and arena kind of tour. No T-shirts with a "Prayer Tour 2007" logo. I'm talking a tour of your congregation's council,  committees and classes. I am suggesting you confer with your pastor and ask for permission to request 6 minutes of time at the next committee meeting for each ministry at your church. Then, use those minutes to cast a clear and compelling vision for prayer to saturate every group and gathering of the church.

As you visit each ministry, thank them for tithing these minutes of their meeting to allow you to remind them of the vital role prayer must play in our decision-making, goal-setting, and ministry-activity. Challenge them to tithe these same 6 minutes in their future meetings to prayer. Not the down-the-list or around-the-circle kind of praying but a theme or burden focused, free-flowing conversation with the Lord.

• Challenge the council to bathe every decision in prayer, before they arrive at the decision!
• Ask the financial stewards to prayerfully consider adding (or increasing) prayer to the budget.
• Encourage ministry teams to bathe their activity ideas in prayer.
• Explain to Bible studies and Sunday School classes how they can invite the Holy Spirit's teaching presence.
• Equip small groups to transform sharing-time into prayer for one another.

It seems to me a 6 month tour of the congregation's administrative leadership will have long-term benefits for the entire community of believers . . . and beyond!

Pastor Phil
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