The Compassion Renaissance

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?    

Disciple-Making Workshop References (The Great Commandment & Compassion Cultivation) *** JESUS’S WORDS 57 Commandments of Jesus Christ https://compassion-renaissance.blogspot.com/2022/06/57-commandments-of-jesus-christ.html BRIEF READINGS Alan Hirsch (excerpt), ”The Hebraic Mindset & the Proper Understanding of the Gospels” https://compassion-renaissance.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-hebraic-mindset-proper.html Dallas Willard, “Discipleship: For Super-Christians Only?” Christianity Today, Oct. 10, 1980; Reprinted in : Dallas Willard, The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus's Essential Teachings on Discipleship , 2006, Harper, pp. 3-17. https://compassion-renaissance.blogspot.com/2022/10/dallas-willards-most-important-article.html James R. Doty, M.D., (Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine; Director, Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education), “The Science of Compassion: As human beings, we will inevitably encou