I've sung songs with the Christ Church Cathedral Choir in Oxford as I sat in the congregation. I sang along with the "Hallelujah Chorus" at the end of a performance of Handel's Messiah in the Sheldonian Theater. I've sung songs with Matt Redman and Chris Tomlin in the throngs of tens of thousands. But I believe the happiest song I ever sang was in a dirt-floor home in Kiku...

"No matter what objections there may be to prayer together, it simply could not be any other way. Christians may and should pray together to God in their own words when they desire to live together under the Word of God. They have requests, gratitude, and intercessions to bring in common to God, and they should do so joyfully and confidently. . . . It is in fact the most n...