Episode 55: Big Questions--Why Pray?

If praying is not the same as making wishes to a genie, and if God already knows what I need before I ask it out loud.... why do Christians say we pray?  What's the point of prayer, if God reserves the right to answer as we ask... ?or? to answer differently?  What do we think we are doing when we pray if it's not informing the Divine about new factual information?  And after getting tired of hearing public officials just vaguely offer "thoughts and prayers" after tragedies like school shootings, or natural disasters, why do Christians keep at this practice we call prayer?  What's it all about... and what is it not about? Join pastors Erica and Steve for another conversation in our Big Questions series as we look at the relational side of prayer, the ways God changes ?us? when we pray, the good news in times when words simply fail us, and where the power really lies when we pick up the conversation again with the living God.