The District Church

But but maybe the issue is not that we don't care about prayer. Maybe the issue is not that we don't care about our intimacy with God. It is that those things reveal what is competing with God in our lives. And so God is in constant competition with all these things that we can throw out. And you know when life gets full, you know what gets pushed out? The things that don't feel urgent. And prayer and our intimacy with God is right at the top of that list. Why? Because prayer doesn't force itself on us. God doesn't force himself on us. Prayer waits patiently for us. And so when life gets full with many other things, God gets crowded to the edges. So so instead, church, instead of blaming the season or blaming the schedule, it it might be more honest and more freeing for us to ask a different question.