Today, I have the privilege of sharing a new book by my sweet friend, Teri Lynne Underwood. Prayers from the Pews is an incredible new resource packed with encouragement and practical prayer help for believers and is a “MUST READ” for all who long to see God move in your church.
“Prayers from the Pews beckons us back to seeking and seeing our Father’s face by using the book of Acts to pray for our local churches. Teri literally has invited us to breathe again!”
Michael Mohler, Pastor at Trinity Point Church and South Carolina Baptist Convention Discipleship Coordinator
What if the problem with the church isn’t what we are doing but rather what we are not doing?
Features of Prayers from the Pews:
- Short chapters with discussion questions
- Thirty prayers based on the Book of Acts
- 40-Day reading guide for Acts
A Note from Teri Lynne: I’m a fourth-generation pastor’s wife and I’m raising a fourth-generation pastor’s kid. The church has been the backdrop for almost every significant decision and experience in my life. I have been a part of churches I’ve loved and churches I, well, didn’t love. From business meetings gone wild to sanctuaries so heavy with the Holy Spirit no one was willing to move – I’ve seen body of Christ at its best and, sadly, at its worst.
A popular sentiment these days in American culture is to reject the “institutional church,” blaming the machinery and programs and leadership for all the failures in sharing the gospel, ministering to the poor, and impacting the world. This book is my reaction to much of that sentiment. Weary from the debate about how best to “do church,” I spent time exploring the first church in the book of Acts. What I found was not a program for exponential growth or a plan for the perfect church, instead I saw a whole lot of very ordinary people become a part of an extraordinary purpose. The foundation for every thing the early church did was prayer. Everything.
In Prayers from the Pews, I am inviting you to join me in letting go of the perceptions and preferences and instead to dig deep into the heart of prayer. Because I’m more and more convinced that answers we long to find about doing church well can only be found when we begin the conversation on our knees.
Print copies will be available very soon on Teri Lynne’s website and on Amazon.
I’m a Midwestern girl happily married to a Southern man. We’re making our home in North Alabama with our (growing-up-way-too-fast) daughter and a very droopy Basset hound. In my spare time I love Auburn football, watching Downton Abbey or Big Bang Theory (talk about a split personality!), and spending time with my family. Finding glimpses of holy in the most mundane places, my one desire is to invite others into this journey toward a life where the sacred and secular collide. I write my almost-daily words of encouragement at a little white desk and study in a big not-so-white-anymore chair in between loading the dishwasher, putting out the dog, and sitting in the car line.
Teri Lynne,
Thank you SO much for sharing your heart in this new book! What a blessing it is for the church as a whole, as well as for each of us individually! 🙂
Thank you, Steph, for helping me spread the word!!