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Should Men Still Pray with Lifted Hands?

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Paul desired that “in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands.” Should men in the church today still lift their hands when they pray?

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0:00.0

Good Friday, everyone.

0:05.7

On this podcast, we regularly take questions about how the early church did things.

0:11.9

And then we ask what practices we read about in our Bibles are directly transferable to

0:16.7

our local churches today.

0:19.9

And within that category, I think we'd fit today's email from a listener named Robbie

0:24.8

in Kentucky.

0:26.8

Professor John, hello to you.

0:28.2

In 1 Timothy 2 A, we read that Paul exhorted men to pray in church while lifting up

0:34.7

holy hands.

0:37.3

What's the connection between lifted hands and holiness?

0:41.9

And what about lifted hands and prayer?

0:44.2

Is this practice culturally dated or is it a relevant one we should adopt today in our

0:50.0

corporate church gatherings?

0:53.3

The text, namely 1 Timothy 2, 8, says, I desire then that in every place the men and the

1:03.0

word is men, not just persons, it's males, should pray, lifting holy hands without anger

1:11.8

or quarreling.

1:13.8

And then Paul continues interestingly, in verse 9, without a break, and shifts from men

1:19.6

to women and says, likewise, also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel

1:29.9

with modesty and self-control.

1:31.8

And I think it's relevant for understanding the word to men to realize that it's paired

1:39.7

with a word to women.

1:42.8

It's relevant because it relates to the question whether Paul is addressing merely a peculiar

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