Prayer: Corporate Prayer in the Early Church
Teaching on Prayer from Cyprian of Carthage: Corporate Prayer in the Early Church
This is a spiritual discipline on corporate prayer and community, drawing on Acts 2:42, Matthew 18:20 and Matthew 6:9-13.
The early church devoted themselves to prayer together as a community. The Didache, one of the earliest Christian documents outside the New Testament (c. 70-100 AD), instructed believers: "Pray thus three times a day" and provided the Lord's Prayer as the pattern. Cyprian of Carthage (d. 258) wrote extensively on the Lord's Prayer, teaching that its very language -- "Our Father," not "My Father" -- reveals that Christian prayer is inherently communal.…
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