Pete Greig, prayer, mission and new forms of church

On this month’s podcast we’re having chat with Pete Greig. Pete is one of the founding members of the 24/7 Prayer movement. This movement has grown from a single night-and-day prayer vigil into an interdenominational movement of prayer, mission and justice that has spread across a third of the world’s nations in little over a decade.

We ask Pete a bit about how this movement got going, and how it relates to mission and new forms of church.

One of the comments Pete made that really struck me was how they didn’t start out with a strategy to begin a movement, rather their desire was for deeper intimacy with God. Pete likened putting strategy before intimacy as ‘getting married as a child raising strategy’. Love and intimacy should always come first, in marriage as well as in our relationship with God!

This is a really nice blend of the apostolic and pastoral. 24/7 has become a phenomenal movement, but it seems God took care of the movement side of things, while Pete and his co-workers focused on intimacy with God.

An important lesson for all us involved in mission I suspect.