“Concert Prayer”

This essay explores the historically Pentecostal distinctive of “concert prayer” that has in recent years bled into larger evangelical church practices.

Concert prayer is that way of praying in which multiple prayers raise their voices aloud simultaneously but not in unison.

This essay identifies three socio-theological effects of the practices of concert prayer by their corporate and individual edification, that is: (1) hospitality, (2) accompaniment, and (3) the production of faith.

The argument concludes that that concert prayer achieves a spiritual effect that individual prayer does not, and that said experience of the corporate prayer draws an individual's desire and dependence to the institution of the local ecclesial gathering.

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A Theological Look at the Socio-Formative Role of Concert Prayer