Sentence examples for prayer language from inspiring English sources

However, private prayer language is not mentioned in the inerrant Bible.

A survey released days before the convention found that half of Southern Baptist preachers think the Holy Spirit gives some people the gift of a private prayer language.

Many Jewish congregations have also expanded prayer language in English to acknowledge matriarchs and to change words like "lord" and "king".

"We must be committed to sharing God's love with all people including homosexuals," he said.One of the biggest issues at this year's convention was whether Baptists should be allowed to have a "private prayer language".

Allowing Southern Baptist missionaries to speak in tongues, or have what some SBC leaders call a "private prayer language," speaks to the growing strength of Pentecostal churches in Africa, Asia and South America, where Southern Baptists are competing for converts and where energized new Christians are enthusiastically embracing the practice.

So a vocal contingent wanted the SBC to amend the Faith and Message to disavow private prayer language.Others were reluctant to clamp down.

Behind the prayer-language was still the boy whose pride had nearly burst his new suit as he gave his high-school valedictory speech; and the low-class non-Brahmin Bostonian who, in his vast-ceilinged office beside Nixon's, had burned to destroy all non-believers in their cause and to make America great and good again.

In the Book of Common Prayer, the language seems not to refer to the epoch (our time) but to something more local (my days); and tranquillity and peace have become the comfier "rest and quietness".

Prayer is language directed at God or spirits; the profound dissolution of self she experiences in prayer, in which she "broke himself open" and she is "nothing, a smashed thing," opens her to multiple possibilities of spirituality and identity.

So there is something very distilled and self-defining about his animal poems, almost as if they were prayers to language itself; which is why, out of the mass of his Collected Poems, it seemed a good idea to gather a bestiary.

He will also lead prayers using languages such as Tzotzil and Chol.