Prayer: Tertullian: Prayer as Spiritual Sacrifice
Teaching on Prayer from Tertullian: Tertullian: Prayer as Spiritual Sacrifice
This is a spiritual discipline on spiritual sacrifice and prayer posture, drawing on Hebrews 13:15, Psalm 141:2 and 1 Timothy 2:8.
Tertullian (d. c. 220) wrote the earliest extant Christian treatise on prayer ("De Oratione"). He called prayer "the spiritual sacrifice which has abolished the former sacrifices. What good do we gain from a multitude of cattle for slaughter? The Lord requires prayer from the heart, not from the herd." Tertullian saw prayer as replacing the entire sacrificial system of the Old Testament.…
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