<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/final/magazine/winter-2010/power-praying-together.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>The Power of Praying Together</title><excerpt>Why do fewer churches hold weekly prayer meetings these days? James Banks ’84 thinks Christians find praying aloud awkward and tedious because they’re out of practice. He hopes his book, “The Lost Art of Praying Together” (Discovery House, 2009), will inspire believers to recover the rich tradition of collective prayer. “A generation ago, Christians had a passion for prayer rarely seen today,” he says.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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