Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. A podcast all about leadership, change and personal growth.

The goal, to help you lead like never before in your church or in your business.

And now your host, Carrie Newhoff.

Well, hey everybody and welcome to episode 38 of the podcast.

My name is Carrie Newhoff and it's so good to have you here.

Thanks so much for joining and I hope our time together today helps you lead

like never before.

And today we're gonna talk about an issue that I think affects more church leaders than maybe we like to admit.

And the issue is prayer. And I have a theory, it's just a theory. And here's my theory. I think more Christian leaders struggle with prayer than we realize and I think it might even be an occupational hazard when it comes to

leading in ministry that prayer just for whatever reason seems to be harder or

maybe not as rich as we thought it would be and I think that's especially true of

church leaders the you know irony of course is that it's essential like you

you have to be prayerful if you're going to be in church

leadership and I think that's true if you're Christian. I mean if you're a Christian in

business or a parrochurch organization or you know Christian stay-at-home dad or mom

you want prayer to be at the heart of your relationship with God, but I think when you're in

ministry it's just, I don't know, it just seems to be a little bit harder.

I run into a lot of leaders who are dry when it comes to prayer. And so our guest today,

Jared Brock, was in that place when he was in his mid-20s. He was just, you know,

Christian, solid, but like his prayer life just kind of dried up and so he made a

proposal to a publisher that said hey will you pay for my expenses if I go around

the world studying prayer and I just I want to spend a year living prayer

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