This page contains all the links to the posts I’ve written on the Lord’s Prayer. Much of this was taken from research I did while I was in school. I have changed some of the language and formating to make it more readable in blog format, I have also changed the citations to links to the books the quotes come from. If you have any questions about exactly where certain quotes were taken from please ask and I will be happy to supply you with pages numbers and bibliographies. Category Link.
The Paternoster: A Formative Christian Practice For All Followers
Qaddish and the Lord’s Prayer: Jesus’ Subversive Tactics
NT Wright and Retelling Stories: Alternate Histories and the Lord’s Prayer
Matthew 6 – The Kingdom of God and Prayer for Bread
Liturgical Prayer For Mission – Based on the Lord’s Prayer
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Humilty and the Lord’s Prayer: A Short Homily
A Short Prayer Service with the Lord’s Prayer
[...] Continuing my series on the Lord’s Prayer and how it functions as both a mission statement and community formating guide for the churchh. We now direct our attention to further exposition of the prayer itself – this post in particular deals with Matthew 6:10-11. [...]
[...] As I near the end of my series on the Lord’s Prayer I want to turn now to a small liturgy I’ve written that is based off the Lord’s Prayer and the conclusions I’ve arrived at through this series. This liturgy was made to help conceptualize in a communal setting ways in which, we the church can embody the practices and “politics of Jesus.â€? We have said this in our small group as part of our prayer together, it is meant to fit your context, so if you do decide to download it and use it feel free to adjust any of the parts that don’t fit your context.  The main point of this is to bring into our worship settings prayers that are formed around and out of Jesus’ own prayer. Don’t let this liturgy overshadow the Lord’s Prayer, that is of primary importance, this liturgy is to only act as an aid in the community and help point it toward mission. Not only does the Lord’s prayer form the community of God in terms of “shaping our dispositionsâ€? but it shapes our mission – our concerns, our values. When we prayer come close to the heart of God. [...]
[...] This Sunday I am leading a discussion on the Lord’s Prayer, basically covering what I’ve been writting about here for the past month or so. In preparing I decided to create a few Queries to help begin the discussion on Prayer and mission. [...]
[...] Other groups of Christian such as Quakers, though they too say various types of prayers, tend to focus on silence, which is also called contemplation. It seeks to find God and hear God in the midst of being quiet; instead of uttering requests and thanksgivings and laments it seeks to listen. Often times prayers are said in repetition – such as the Lord’s Prayer. Stanely Hauerwaus says in his book on the Lord’s Prayer, “Some things in life are too important to be left up to chance. Some things inlife are too difficult to be left up to spontaneous desire – things like telling people that we love them or praying to God. So we do them out of habit.” I’ve written extensively on the Lord’s Prayer, which I doubt you have time to read, but in those posts I talk about the importance of saying that particular prayer regularly. And how prayer can often times change our disposition towards a situation or person.But we don’t just pray for ourselves, prayer is communion with God and often done for others. A common form of prayer found in the bible is intercessory prayer, this is where one prays on behalf of another in who is in need. You can find this form in the Lord’s prayer (according to my reading of it), “give us this day our daily bread” and “forgive us our debts as we have forgiven our debtors.” Therefore prayer is communicating with God in some explicit form. It is directing our actions, our voice or our thoughts to God in a manner that seeks for God to respond to us. Classic Christianity and prayer assumes reciprocity with God, a give and take, we believe that in praying God hears and acts. John Goldingay, an Old Testament teacher at Fuller Seminary, has written about prayer and argues that it can and should be understood as God giving us the gift of helping God in the healing, forgiveness and creation of the world. That in some way, we act as a “rector” of sorts when we pray. That is, God allows us to give feedback into the way the world is working, and even argue our points, so much so that God hears and at times changes his/her mind accordingly. I hope that this answers some of your questions and brings up more, for this is a huge area of the Christian life and therefore much can be said. Let me know if you have any other thoughts or questions. Peace and Light, C. Wess Daniels Related: [...]
[...] Stay involved in your church: Our faith and our meeting with other Christians can often take a back seat to everything else, but this is one of those things that needs to be the last to get cut. I know for me that I need time to center down. To focus on the Lord and pray. I will often pray the Lord’s Prayer. Everything I do focuses on me, or seems to, and without these moments of gathering it wouldn’t be hard to become completely absorbed in ourselves (I may be anyways). Meeting with others in prayer and in the name of Christ can keep us other-oriented. [...]