Today’s post is short, but it concludes our discussion last night at small group, because we love our children’s Kids Bridge teachers and needed to relieve them! We read Chapter 6 for this week’s small group, entitled Why Pray? and we were discussing what we thought this passage means: “Although Jesus knew the redemptive pattern in advance—he had revealed it to his disciples—how remote it must have seemed to him in the garden. How remote it seems to all of us in the midst of our trials.” (86) Let’s look at a key word here in this passage: redemptive. What does redemptive mean? Let’s read about what happened in the Garden of Gethsemane to have some context. Luke 22:39-46 Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. 40 On reaching the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.” 41 He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed, 42 “Father, if you are willing, take this ...