Tonight we spent time in the prayer of examen, as we have a couple of times before. The practices, meditations and prayers used in TILT's worship gathering will be put on the site so they can be used as a resource throughout the week. We will create a PDF document that can be viewed online, printed, or whatever else you may do with a PDF document. It is our hope that the experience of using them in a corporate worship setting will spur us as a community to implement them as part of our lives throughout the week.
The prayer of examen has been used for centuries (not quite sure of history at this moment). It is a prayer used to allow God to reveal how he has been present in our lives and where we have failed to listen to him, or not received his healing and his forgiveness for sins (as well as confessing them!). Richard Foster has an excellent book on prayer and one chapter devoted to the prayer of examen. One blogger quotes from that chapter here.
Grab the prayer of examen here (or any other hyperlinked 'prayer of examen' for that matter).
Sunday, January 7, 2007
The Prayer of Examen
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Although this was 2 years ago, I thought maybe you would appreciate an online tool to help journal your examens. Examen.me is a site that guides your through the Prayer of Examen as well as other "Scripture Examens".
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