This detailed and comprehensive guide contains all one needs to know about delivering meaningful and appropriate intercessions. Starting with the origin and meaning of intercessory prayer with texts from the Old Testament, the author leads one through the development of intercessions to their place in public worship today. Planning, language, liturgy and delivery are dealt with in great detail as are the problems and pitfalls faced by the intercessor. At the end of the chapter entitled "Dangers, Errors and Temptations" Raymond Chapman writes "…with deep desire that no one will be frightened away from the intercessor's task" A new recruit reading this book on their own, without the guidance of a more experienced person, might do just that. However this is an excellent guide for the more experienced intercessor who may need a fresh approach or even a complete "makeover" and it is a useful reference book for those entrusted with the task of training new recruits to this important role within the church service. Notes by Jean Dickson who worships at The Priory, Leominster, Herefordshire.

This detailed and comprehensive guide contains all one needs to know about delivering meaningful and appropriate intercessions. Starting with the origin and meaning of intercessory prayer with texts from the Old Testament, the author leads one through the development of intercessions to their place in public worship today. Planning, language, liturgy and delivery are dealt with in great detail as are the problems and pitfalls faced by the intercessor. At the end of the chapter entitled "Dangers, Errors and Temptations" Raymond Chapman writes " with deep desire that no one will be frightened away from the intercessor's task" A new recruit reading this book on their own, without the guidance of a more experienced person, might do just that. However this is an excellent guide for the more experienced intercessor who may need a fresh approach or even a complete "makeover" and it is a useful reference book for those entrusted with the task of training new recruits to this important role within the church service. Notes by Jean Dickson who worships at The Priory, Leominster, Herefordshire.

This detailed and comprehensive guide contains all one needs to know about delivering meaningful and appropriate intercessions. Starting with the origin and meaning of intercessory prayer with texts from the Old Testament, the author leads one through the development of intercessions to their place in public worship today. Planning, language, liturgy and delivery are dealt with in great detail as are the problems and pitfalls faced by the intercessor. At the end of the chapter entitled "Dangers, Errors and Temptations" Raymond Chapman writes " with deep desire that no one will be frightened away from the intercessor's task" A new recruit reading this book on their own, without the guidance of a more experienced person, might do just that. However this is an excellent guide for the more experienced intercessor who may need a fresh approach or even a complete "makeover" and it is a useful reference book for those entrusted with the task of training new recruits to this important role within the church service. Notes by Jean Dickson who worships at The Priory, Leominster, Herefordshire.