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But if prayer is rightly understood, not as an ineffective means of lobbying with God for special favors, but as, in this sense, a means of salvation, how effective a means is it? Otherwise put: Does prayer used as such a means work? Does something happen, after all? I deeply believe it does; for when we learn to pray as we ought, making use of prayer as the means of salvation it properly is, it is bound to be effective for us as the pray-ers, and we have every reason to hope and pray that our prayers may also become an effective witness, and so an effective means of salvation, for others.

Conclusion

Let us pray. --–

Bless, O God, all our attempts to do theology and enable them to bear rich fruit. Help us, above all, both to speak and to listen to one another in love: to say what we mean and to mean what we say; and, not least, to hear what is meant, not just what is said; for Jesus's sake. Amen

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