Inhabit

We chat to our good friend Olivia Wolfe about her experiences of prayer as relationship and her creative practices. Olivia shares about the blurred lines between praying, journaling and writing poetry and gives some great insights into how you can develop these practices in your own life.

Benj has walked past and prayed for every house in Long Jetty. Barefoot. What a boss.

You don't have to start with a challenge at that level, but in this episode we explore how powerful it can be walking the neighbourhood in prayer.

In this episode we explore liturgical prayer through the book 'Common Prayer: a Liturgy for Radicals'.

We talk about the power that can be found in written prayers developed for specific occasions, and the helpful place liturgy can have in developing our prayer life.

Get the Common Prayer app here: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/book-of-common-prayer/id1138857966

"Jesus, teach us how to pray." This week, we explore the OG prayer, straight from the mouth of Jesus himself, AKA the Lord's Prayer AKA the Our Father AKA the hexagon. Ok, so you may not have heard it referred to as a hexagon. Listen to the episode and find out why we do. Discover the incredible yet simple model this prayer gives us which can be used uniquely in your context.

This model comes from Mike Breen and the 3DM team. Check out the book 'Building a Discipling Culture' if you are interested in learning more.

We've been speaking about prayer - but our desire is to help you pray. So, for the rest of this season, we're going to be releasing mini episodes like this one as resources to help you experiment with new ways to pray. In this one, Benj shares something he's personally found really helpful: 'circle prayer'. Listen in to learn how it works, then give it a go and let us know how you find it!

Connect with us through our 'Inhabit Fam' group on Facebook.

Full disclosure, at the beginning of this episode we got distracted and followed some banter-iffic rabbit trails. BUT, that kind of illustrates one of the points at the heart of this episode. We are highly distractable beings. And we're busy. And we get bored. And these are just some of the practical obstacles we face when we are trying to develop a prayer habit. In this episode we have a conversation about these practical obstacles, and how we can begin to overcome them and get some skin in the prayer game.

What stops you from praying? We take a deeep dive in this episode as we consider all the philosophical challenges we face when it comes to prayer.

Prayer: basically everyone agrees it's important. Basically everyone finds it difficult.

How do different people think about it, including different streams of Christianity? Why do people do it? What does research show about the benefits of it?

We look at these and a bunch of other questions in our introduction to this season of Inhabit, which is all about prayer - both at a philosophical level and a practical level.

This is our LAST episode in this strange season loosely united by COVID-19 and our experiences over the last couple months.

We talk about how hard it is to keep good habits going in Winter, how to clean your heart like a monk and the season of Inhabit we are working on next.

There are at least two occasions in this episode where Benj burns Will.

We asked members of our Inhabit Fam Facebook group to hit us with some questions for a Q&R episode. Here it is.

Questions we discussed included:

•Conspiracies, corruption from a biblical perspective... eg New World Order, coronavirus etc!

•Can someone have multiple "calling"s? How to discern if it is from God or just a really exciting idea? What to do when your "calling" doesn't mix with your family/ former or current beliefs/ monetary situation/ work situation?

•Why has a movement of radical inclusion and love (Christianity) been so exclusionary, both historically and currently? For example, to queer folk.