James
Chapter 5
Vs 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
Chapter 5
Vs 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
This is the power of community.
See Power of Community notes.
We are to pray for one another. We read this and emphasize people praying for us instead of us praying for others. We think that our leaders (pastors, small group leaders, church prayer warriors) are the righteous people we are to seek out. We believe that they have more power to pray on our behalf. But the righteousness that we all have is from Christ....it is not our own....and it is from His righteousness that we stand and have access to the Father and can approach the throne with confidence. With this confidence we are to enter into community and pray for one another.
See Power of Community notes.
We are to pray for one another. We read this and emphasize people praying for us instead of us praying for others. We think that our leaders (pastors, small group leaders, church prayer warriors) are the righteous people we are to seek out. We believe that they have more power to pray on our behalf. But the righteousness that we all have is from Christ....it is not our own....and it is from His righteousness that we stand and have access to the Father and can approach the throne with confidence. With this confidence we are to enter into community and pray for one another.