prayer
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A church may have doctrines, debates, confessions, sermons, and Bible studies, yet still lose the posture of prayer. When theology forgets to pray, it becomes noisy, proud, combative, and self-assured. True Christian thinking begins not in mastery, but in humble dependence before God.
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Some Christians use Matthew 6:6 to argue that the Father is hidden, inaccessible, and therefore should not be addressed in prayer. But the very passage they cite says the opposite. Jesus does not forbid prayer to the Father. He commands it.
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Some Christians claim that all prayer must be addressed only to Jesus, and that praying to the Father is sinful. But Jesus himself taught his disciples to pray, “Our Father.” The New Testament gives us a richer pattern: to the Father, through the Son, in the Spirit.