Still Bewildered! Pete Greig
Catching up with 24-7 Prayer’s Pete Grei
Two decades after pioneering the ground-breaking 24-7 Prayer movement, best-selling author, speaker and church planter Pete Greig is still bewildered by how God used him to instigate this ministry.
It was in the summer of 1999 while Pete and his wife Sammy had established a thriving church plant in Chichester that he knew something was still missing from his life.
He says, “Outwardly the church was growing, people were getting saved – we were very innovative. But inwardly I was dying. I was just so spiritually hungry; I was desperate to get to know God better. I felt that we were really weak and shallow on spirituality and prayer.
“Then I realised that prayer is the key to everything. So we started a prayer room, inspired by the 18th century Moravians who prayed non-stop for 100 years, converted John Wesley and changed the course of history. And we thought if they could do 100 years, we’ll try one month!
I'm not into prayer... I'm just into Jesus, so I talk to him
“We weren’t trying to start a movement; we were just a church that was bad at prayer trying to learn how to pray. Within three months it had gone viral.”
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