This week on the Ask Pastor John Podcast, we're joined by Pastor and author Tim Keller.

He has a really excellent book coming out soon titled Prayer, Experiencing Aw and

Inemissy with God.

And he joins us today from his office in New York City to talk about prayer.

This week I plan to ask 10 rapid fire questions, two questions per episode this week.

So here we go, Dr. Keller, here's question number one.

I want to begin with a broad question.

Among Christians today, how widespread is prayerlessness and what does it reveal about

our spiritual health?

Well, I think that's a, that's actually, it's a broad question, but it's also not that

hard a question to answer.

I know that from a secular, just from empirical secular studies, everyone in our Western

society today has less solitude.

He says that.

All of us have, there's less and less of our day or our month or a week in which we are

unplugged.

We're not, we're not listening to something or talking to somebody or texting.

It's because of the, you know, how pervasive social media is and the internet is and various

sorts of electronic devices and therefore most people in the past couldn't avoid solitude

to some degree.

But now there isn't any.

And so everybody I talk to, it's, this is anecdotal.

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