ABSTRACT
Prayer and the life of fellowship with God, ora et labora, are impossible without each other. Thus it would be absurd to think that we could enter through prayer into fellowship with God, if this is not manifested in the life we live. The consequence of this is that prayer is not the exercise of real fellowship with God but merely a technique in which we are trained to understand our lives and experience in terms of the stories and to live our lives in accordance with this understanding. Belief in the real existence of God is therefore a constituting presupposition of the language game of prayer. According to Gerhard Sauter, theology is anchored in prayer since prayer expresses the fundamental distinctions which are constitutive for the believer’s experience of reality. Moslems, Christians and Jews are all children of Abraham who in different ways worship the God of Abraham.
