God’s people are praying people. This May, Archbishop Kanishka Raffel wants to gather together to do just this on the Diocesan Day of Prayer.
Before The Throne on May 4 is an invitation to all to come to St Andrew’s Cathedral and pray for the spread of the gospel with Anglicans from all across the Diocese.
“It’s a day of prayer for our friends, family, neighbours and colleagues who don’t know Christ, to come to know him and his redeeming love,” Archbishop Raffel says. “I hope every parish will be represented at the Cathedral that afternoon as we join together in prayer for the lost.”
With a changing discourse about Christianity, more people are becoming open to hearing the gospel every day. New research from McCrindle shows Australians are changing their minds about Christianity, with one in 10 Australians who said they were non-religious in the 2016 Census ticking “Christian” five years later.
What a great cause for praise, and what a great prayer we can pray for our city and country – that we would continue seeing people open to the gospel and be ready to share it with them.
Not only will there be prayer for the lost, but a time of prayer for all who seek to share the hope Jesus brings.
“Will you pray for me, and for your church’s senior minister and ministry team, for chaplains in schools, hospitals, prisons and Anglicare villages, for your youth and children’s leaders, that we would be clear in speaking of Jesus to others?” asks Archbishop Raffel.
“I am praying for you, as a ‘proclaimer’, in the opportunities, conversations and relationships in which God has placed you. Please join with me in praying that Jesus would save the people we know who don’t know him. And that he would help us all to ‘declare the praises of him who called [us] out of darkness into his wonderful light’ (1 Peter 2:9).”
Before the Throne
May 4, one day together in prayer
When: May 4th, 2.30pm-4pm
Where: St Andrew’s Cathedral, Cnr of George and, Bathurst St, Sydney
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