Jesus Centered Prayer

Prayer is meant to be done in a very discreet, almost like covert of way. For jesus prayer is a deeply personal and relational experience. To even risk being in a setting where you will exploit to look good in some way is just to sabotage the whole thing. The word pagan has all these connections to it that it doesn't actually have in the bible. In the bible it's an ethnic term. It's always used in the mouth of somebody who's jewish talking about somebody who's not jewish. And so he says this verse eight: 'Don't keep babbling on like pagans for when they think they be hurd because of their many words' He