My BIG Christianity Question

Why do so many believers prefer making (long-winded, not-in-one's-prayer-closet, out-loud) individualistic "intercessional prayers" in the presence of one who suffers rather than the alternative: making an effort to understand the suffering and then eliciting the community (not just one individual prayer-maker) to take effective practical action to relieve that suffering?

 

 

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