It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
We know that to become a Christian we shouldn__ try to fix ourselves up, but when it comes to praying we completely forget that. We__l sing the old gospel hymn, __ust as I Am,_ but when it comes to praying, we don__ come just as we are. We try, like adults, to fix ourselves up. Private, personal prayer is one of the last great bastions of legalism. In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you__e been taught.
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We know that to become a Christian we shouldn__ try to fix ourselves up, but when it comes to praying we completely forget that. We__l sing the old gospel hymn, __ust as I Am,_ but when it comes to praying, we don__ come just as we are. We try, like adults, to fix ourselves up. Private, personal prayer is one of the last great bastions of legalism. In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you__e been taught.
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