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The prayer Jesus never asked you to pray

Chances are if you’ve ever been to a youth group or Christian camp function you’ve heard someone lead a group of sniffling teenagers at an altar in “the prayer.” Youth evangelist Eastman Curtis, before his fall from grace, used to call the repeat-after-me moment where hundreds of young adults said “the prayer” the most important […]