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Let the Whole Church Say Amen! A Guide for Those Who Pray in Public

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ISBN-10: 0687090776

ISBN-13: 9780687090778

Edition: 2001

Authors: Laurence Hull Stookey

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List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 6/1/2001
Pages: 165
Size: 8.36" wide x 11.02" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Laurence Hull Stookey is Professor Emeritusnbsp;of Preaching and Worship, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington,D.C., and Pastor of Asbury United Methodist Church in Allen, MD. He has authored the following books for Abingdon: Eucharist: Christ's Feast With the Church; Calendar: Christ's Time for the Church; Baptism: Christ's Act in the Church; Let the Whole Church Say Amen; and This Day: A Wesleyan Way of Prayer. also trynbsp; lstookey@wesleyseminary.edu

Introduction
The Grandeur of God and Prayer as Pure Praise
Learning a Basic Form for Brief Prayers
Reviewing and Using the Basic Form
The Collect Form with Modifications
Learning to Pray with Vigorous Verbs
Patience and Persistence and Offerings to God
On Heaping Up Empty Phrases
Another Prayer Form: The Litany
Achieving Variety and Breadth
To Write or Not to Write: Is That the Question?
Corporate Prayers of Confession
On the Holiness of God
Praying to the God Who Is Present
Praying to the Trinity
The Physical Aspects of Public Prayer
Helping All to Feel Included
The Lost Art of Lament
The Pastoral Prayer and Related Forms
Praying About Controversial Issues
The Sounds and Silence of Public Prayer
Constructing a Thematic Prayer Based on Scripture
Praying Outside the Church (Interreligious Settings)
Writing Prayers for Unison Use
Presiding at the Free Intercessions
The Eucharistic Prayer
A Checklist: In Conclusion
Selected Prayers and Their Use
Praying in "The King James Way"
Some Finer Points of Usage
Notes