"Give Praise to God" was especially insightful this week, in my opinion. I am fascinated by what Johnson and Duncan have to say about public prayer. However, I was puzzled by the third point found on page 165. The authors' quotation of Shedd perhaps summarize this paragraph best: "Familiarity is the worst of faults in prayer." They admonish us to use language that is both "suitable" and "scrupulously reverent."
How do we approach God as our Father, our Creator, our Savior, our Friend, our Redeemer, our Counselor, our Helper... without some element of familiarity? Where is the balance between approaching the throne of grace with boldness and coming before the holy God with reverence?
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