The Importance of Prayer in a Community Setting

In first timothy, paul turns to the actual outworking of prayer within specific community contexts. Men in particular here are charged with the task of prayer that paul has mentioned at the beginning of this chapter. And they are warned about the dangers of anger and quarrelling. There is a possible allusion here back to malachi, chapter one, verse 11. That verse from malachi reads, for from the rising of the sun to its setting, my name will be great among the nations. The fact that they are praying this way in every place alludes to the universal scope of the gospel in fulfilment of old testament prophecy. In first corinthians, chapter 11,