"Prayer was so essential to Edwards's Christianity that the idea of a Christian who did not pray was preposterous. . . . It seemed contrary to Edwards's understanding of Scripture that anyone could be indwelled by the Spirit who causes God's children to "cry out, 'Abba! Father!'" (Rom. 8:15; cf. Gal. 4:6) and yet not cry out to the Father in regular prayer" (Donald S. Whitney, "Pursuing A Passion for God Through Spiritual Disciplines: Learning from Jonathan Edwards," in A God Entranced Vision of All Things: The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards, eds. John Piper and Justin Taylor, 115).
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