Public Prayer

[TRUTH over TRADITION]

Is there scriptural examples of public group individual led prayer other than Jesus' instruction of how to pray from Matthew? I ask because I can recalled being in church countless times either listening to or leading prayer and far too often I'd get the sense that rather than talking to the Father, the public prayer was being used to push group held doctrine. Overall very rarely does this type of prayer ever come across natural or even genuine. All the "thees", "thous", and "thys" are surely said publically just to right holy because we do not really speak like that. What gives in prayer?

 

[Theofilus]

On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,†they said, “you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:

“‘Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth rise up
and the rulers band together
against the Lord
and against his anointed one.’

Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.â€

After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. (Acts 4:23-31 KJV)​