Jesus teaches on prayer very specifically to the individual. But prayer, although an individual activity, also becomes a core community activity in the church. It’s directly linked to fellowship, which is really interesting to me. The pillar of fellowship is the piece that binds the rest of the foundation together. They listened to the apostles’ teachings … together, broke bread … together, and prayed … together.

This group of guys who had lived with and learned from Jesus are now praying … together. Wouldn’t you love to know what the prayers of the early church sounded like? It would have been incredible, right? We don’t have to completely guess. The Book of Acts unpacks a lot of the things they prayed for. We won’t look at all, but here are the big ones.