This week, Dennis Allan discusses the way prayer is meant to be done in community and how it's supposed to expand outward. Jesus invites His people to come to God and ask for the things they want, to be vulnerable and honest as they express their wills and desires to Him. But prayer that stays privatized and individualistic misses the expansive and communal nature of prayer, where we bear one another into God's presence as a first act of caring love. We might think praying is a passive activity, yet Jesus saw it as integral to a well-lived, faithful live. And, we might think prayer can replace action, but the reality is that prayer actually informs and drives our actions. We are to be a people who pray with and for one another, and in so doing be people who are shaped and formed into people of selfless love.