Prayer Is Not Like a Good Recipe

Though in the Lord’s Prayer Jesus provided a basic structure to inform the way we pray, he did not provide a formula. And in fact, no such formula exists, for prayer is not meant to be formulaic. It is not meant to be an exercise in rote statements or vain repetitions. “Prayer is not like a good recipe,” says D.A. Carson, in which you “simply follow a set of mechanical directions and everything turns out right in the end.” So what is prayer? Perhaps no one