We don’t always think of prayer as participation in God’s narrative, perhaps because our prayers are so atomized (“Lord, please speed up my recovery from my bout of flu!”). However, if we undertake a study of prayer in Luke-Acts, paying attention to the strategic plotline location of its major prayers, a striking conclusion emerges: “Luke associates prayer with the movement of God’s redemptive drama, with gaining or disclosing insight into the reality of that drama and its central character, and with preparation for participation in the same drama.”689 Prayer, then, is a means for fusing our
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