Prayer is fundamentally about posture. And fundamentally, prayer is the posture of poverty. Inward seeking the transformation we need, Upward seeking the intimacy we need, and Outward seeking the ministry we need. Foster is careful to point out the journey of prayer begins in utter simplicity, with the epiphanic embrace of one s own weakness and neediness. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit.
Educational institutions aim for the bars of academic proficiency and intellectual competence.
Seminaries must struggle to distinguish themselves. In the midst of shaping biblical scholars, articulate Jesus ambassadors, and proficient ministers of grace, seminaries must foster in students an ethic of incompetent humility. In the pragmatic milieu of the science of church growth and leadership development, seminarians must model the unattractive standard of needy dependence. Prayer is a servant postured humbly before his master, a child postured gratefully in the presence of her Father. Prayer is the posturing place where all true kingdom work is authorized.