What is the mainline Protestant understanding of "unceasing prayer"?
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I suspect that differences of opinion might extend all the way to the individual level, rather than being settled upon by any particular denomination.
(So: what do you think it means?)
Inasmuch as I've grown up in the larger protestant tradition, I suppose my opinion might be worth more than nothing, so here goes: it sounds like an attitude to me; the continual practice of keeping short accounts with God, just another angle on loving God and loving your neighbor, just as Philippians 2 is an angle on the same.
I could be wrong, and I'm not a professional, so...
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