A church I served recently struggled with prayer. Many of our leaders were not accustomed to regular prayer and were uncomfortable praying publicly. To address this issue, I first started a daily prayer program during a weekday evening. An appreciable number of members came to pray together using a daily prayer liturgy with daily scripture readings. For this part of the program, I copied liturgy from the PC(USA) Daily Prayer App, which includes opening scriptural sentences, evening Psalms, an Old Testament reading, an epistle reading, a gospel reading, petitions for a prayer of thanksgiving and intercession, a collect, the Lord’s Prayer, and a dismissal. Very quickly, our church secretary took…