If you are a churchgoing Christian in the West, you’ve become a sociological anomaly. The Western church is declining in essentially every statistical measure. Still, in a society losing interest in and growing suspicious of the church, prayer isn’t going anywhere. According to reliable Gallup research, more Americans will pray in a given week than will exercise, drive a car, have sex, or go to work.1 In an increasing post-Christian America, nearly half the population still admits praying daily, a number that dwarfs the nation’s church attendance.2 Any way you measure it, prayer is bigger than
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