Conduct: Prayer as a form of action. Prayer as change.

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Prayer as change, so that the best proof prayer has occurred is a change in the heart, a change in the world, a new behavior? The idea that praying, e.g., to help someone whom you could help practically but do not help would be not prayer but a form of sin? Placeholder for now. This topic burns my hands. I am upset that the President holds prayer meetings but comes out affirming exactly the same things he affirmed when he entered the meeting, as though prayer were a formality and not a deep action. Of course God might just be confirming a person's pre-held beliefs but is that likely?

Pray before you write this incendiary stuff.

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