This concise, plain-speaking book is designed to help anyone who leads intercessions to do so as well as they are able. Drawing on the author's extensive experience as a parish priest and trainer, it contains wisdom both for those leading intercessions for the first time and those with many years of experience. Taking a sensible, down-to-earth approach, it offers: Sample forms of intercession based on Common Worship Alternatives to the more common forms Important dos and don'ts Ideas for creative ways to develop intercessions Practical exercises and checklists

The essential guide for anyone - lay or ordained - who leads intercessions in their local church. Ideal both as a source of inspiration for experts and a training tool for beginners.

Doug Chaplin

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Foreword

1. Introduction

2. A word about prayer

3. The basic pattern

4. Using the basic pattern (1)

5. Using the basic pattern (2)

6. Taking the pattern further

7. Variations on the pattern

8. An alternative pattern

9. A different style of prayer: biddings

10. A different style of prayer: biddings with collects

11. Using the alternative pattern of biddings

12. On the vocabulary of biddings

13. Thinking about responses

14. Problems with responses

15. Singing the responses

16. Beginnings and endings for prayer

17. Taking it further: greater spoken participation

18. Taking it further: greater participation in action

19. Preparing yourself, preparing the prayers

20. Sample intercessions

Appendix A: An exercise – what’s wrong here?

Appendix B: A workshop event

Appendix C: Working with hymns and songs

This concise, plain-speaking book is designed to help anyone who leads intercessions to do so as well as they are able. Drawing on the author’s extensive experience as a parish priest and trainer, it contains wisdom both for those leading intercessions for the first time and those with many years of experience.  
  
Taking a sensible, down-to-earth approach, it offers:  
Sample forms of intercession based on Common Worship  
Alternatives to the more common forms  
Important dos and don’ts  
Ideas for creative ways to develop intercessions  
Practical exercises and checklists

This concise, plain-speaking book is designed to help anyone who leads intercessions to do so as well as they are able. Drawing on the author's extensive experience as a parish priest and trainer, it contains wisdom both for those leading intercessions for the first time and those with many years of experience. Taking a sensible, down-to-earth approach, it offers: \* Sample forms of intercession based on Common Worship \* Alternatives to the more common forms \* Important dos and don'ts \* Ideas for creative ways to develop intercessions \* Practical exercises and checklists

This concise, plain-speaking book is designed to help anyone who leads intercessions to do so as well as they are able. Drawing on the author's extensive experience as a parish priest and trainer, it contains wisdom both for those leading intercessions for the first time and those with many years of experience.  
  
Taking a sensible, down-to-earth approach, it offers:

- Sample forms of intercession based on Common Worship
- Alternatives to the more common forms
- Important dos and don'ts
- Ideas for creative ways to develop intercessions
- Practical exercises and checklists

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A simple, concise &amp; practical guide for anyone wishing to lead intercessions - a must read

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This book will help you if you’re asked to lead the Prayers of Intercession in your local church’s worship. Chaplin starts ‘at the very beginning’ for those who have no experience at this, but in later chapters also offers guidelines ‘for those who have begun to stretch their wings’. The principles are the same for all of us, whether Church of England or not. Chaplin writes that even spontaneity will be helped by structure, and preparation doesn’t conflict with inspiration. He has just one ‘rule’ – “You are leading people in prayer, not praying in front of people.”  
This is a very practical ‘how-to’ book, containing many patterns and illustrations, devoting chapters to responses (“keep it short and simple”) and participation, and the use of music. It’s short, too (only 66 pages, including appendices, one of which is a lively exercise in spotting what’s wrong with some specimen intercessions)! A useful book.

Leading Common Worship Intercessions

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