The Second Prayer in the Church Service

This article discusses the “second prayer”: the prayer that usually happens after the sermon. What is striking? In that prayer the well and woe of the congregation is often raised in detail and rightly so. But when the amen of the minister is heard at the end of his prayer, you still think: Was this it? Where is the world? Where is the world church? Oh, sometimes a plane has been shot down or ISIS has been in the news — then the world enters in the prayer for a moment. But after a few Sundays the world disappears again.