You are late on the thread, aren't you, lovely lady? *smile*
It is a book Chris and I are currently reading, which is by
"Dr."Larry" Lawrence Crabb, Christian psychologist, counselor and
author.I had posted it up to sendspace as an .rtf ebook and a
tts2audio book read by Neospeech.
hth
Doris
At 08:39 AM 8/6/2013 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>This sounds like a great book.
>
>Is it on BookShare?
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>Okay, what does PAPA stand for in the book "Papa Prayer??
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>I mean, we know Jesus is our Papa, Daddy, Father, God, and so on. <smile>
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>Thanks much.
>
>Blessings,
>
>Pat Ferguson
>At 09:39 PM 8/5/2013, you wrote:
>>I read the entire book Doris and her husband recommended today and
>>found it well worth the time. Unfortunately, to describe a form of
>>unstructured prayer, you have to be structured, thus the book reads
>>as a formula. He makes it clear, on the other hand, it in no way
>>is a formula and after reading the whole book, I would agree; he is
>>not teaching prayer as a formula to follow. His techniques, or
>>outline of P A P A is easy to remember and that is the purpose of
>>his outline structure. He also shows how his form of prayer can
>>become easy and automatic by following the PAPA outline. His
>>description of each point is down to earth and the cases to which
>>he relates as a counselor, psychologist, and minister, is
>>excellent. On a scale of 1 to 100, I've rate the book a 95. I
>>feel he left things out but as he admits in the book, he is just in
>>first grade and still in the learning stage. I, on the other hand,
>>haven't even gotten to the school door yet, haha. The things with
>>which I disagreed weren't all that important but the basic format
>>he uses is most certainly Scripturally documented and Biblical in
>>practice and I would have no problem recommending it to anyone
>>wishing to learn how to pray. I know what it takes to explain the
>>form of prayer he is describing because it is very similar to what
>>I do except I can teach someone how to pray this form of silent
>>prayer in one email message or in 5 minutes, if my voice holds out
>>that long. In fact, it is so simple, it's the reason most people
>>don't believe it; it is not quite enough work in their
>>minds. Christianity is mostly taught as a form of works. I, on
>>the other hand, fell into that trap and worked my butt off trying
>>to be the best Christian I could be and hoped and prayed God
>>noticed me. In a followup message, I will explain to you the type
>>of Christian I am now and you will see we don't have to work at
>>prayer because the work has already been done. While I am thinking
>>about it, one thing with which I definitely disagreed was his
>>explanation of why our prayers are not answered. Basically he
>>says, it is because our relationship with God must be developed
>>first and then we can graduate up to the point we can petition
>>God. This is not true but he did not belabor the point so I won't either.
>>
>>Phil.
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