Read, Reflect, Pray: A Lutheran Prayer Book

Imagine becoming a group of people who focus their lives on being community, fostering forgiveness, reflecting on their vocations in light of God’s love for us declared in our Baptism, rooting themselves in God’s Word, cultivating a thankful heart, sharing Christ’s grace at table, and being people sent into the world to be salt and light. That’s the shape of our communal worship, our collective practice of being who we are, the body of Christ. And that’s the shape of this prayer book as well. It is an attempt to move these seven central things of worship out into the rest of the world, stretching Sunday out into the whole week. Read, Reflect, Pray is a riff off of Luther’s prayer practice of meditatio, tentatio, oratio. With this prayer book you will read portions of scripture and selections from Christian authors and figures, reflect on Luther’s Small Catechism and weekly questions to ground yourself in those things that are central to the faith, and be launched into prayer with the help of those readings and reflections, as well as historical prayers of the Church.