Designed for Drama: Discovering a fresh passion for prayer

All good stories point to God’s great story. In popular movies, authors use dramatic elements such as crisis, foreshadowing, and self-sacrifice to draw us in and capture us up into the onscreen action. The force behind their effectiveness is that we were designed to be gripped by the ultimate story. We are living in the middle of the most majestic and truly epic tale ever told, and there is a part for each one of us to play-a part for us to pray! I hope, therefore, that as we enjoy looking at some great movies, and the ways in which screenwriters create drama, your eyes will be opened to the very real drama taking place all around you, and that you will be stirred by a fresh passion for prayer.