Location: South Lansing (by the Oak Park YMCA)
Time: Mondays from 7-8:30 p.m. beginning Jan. 25

What if, after having logged countless hours within the walls of the Church, you woke up one day feeling completely brain-dead about prayer? What's the purpose? How does it work? Why even do it? A few years ago, Kyle Lake — a pastor — found himself in this very predicament. Tired of the clichés. Annoyed with the vacant banter. And suspecting that a simple word like prayer failed to express the fullness of our interaction with God.

So he set out to "reunderstand" prayer. Here, Lake deconstructs the wrong ideas of prayer that handicap our conversations with God, including Prayer as Drama, Prayer as Social Dance, and the All-Too Hip and Relevant Prayer (just to name a few).

He seeks answers to a few of faith's most pressing questions:

• How do you hear God?
• How do you know God's voice from your own?
• How do you deal with seemingly unanswered prayers?

(re)Understanding Prayer is the first step on a journey toward a more authentic, personal, and powerful prayer life.

Synopsis:
Lake offers a healthy approach to prayer by attacking prevailing misconceptions of God and destructive approaches to prayer like prayer as taskmaster, then unpacks the essence of conversation.