“When the people of God are praying to God, the one offering up prayers on their behalf should not start (or continue) preaching to the people. If a pastor did not get his last point of the sermon in, he must not shoehorn it into the closing prayer. The one praying should never forget who is being addressed. When the prayer suffers a directional drift, the result is that the congregation is addressed in substance with a thin veneer of vocative references to God. ‘And dear Lord, You know that the Greek verb in verse seventeen is the aorist tense . . .'” (Mother Kirk, p. 148).
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