the lord’s prayer lent 2011
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The Lord’s Prayer Lent 2011. Four Fixtures of catechesis Apostles’ Creed Lord’s Prayer Ten Commandments The Sacraments. Apostles’ Creed: What we believe. Lord’s Prayer: How we pray. Ten Commandments: How we behave. Apostles’ Creed: What we believe ( lex credendi ). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
THE LORD’S PRAYERLENT 2011
FOUR FIXTURES of catechesis• Apostles’ Creed• Lord’s Prayer• Ten Commandments• The Sacraments
Apostles’ Creed:What we believe.
Lord’s Prayer:How we pray.
Ten Commandments: How we behave.
Apostles’ Creed:What we believe (lex
credendi).Lord’s Prayer:
How we pray (lex orandi).
Ten Commandments: How we behave (lex
vivendi).
“Lex orandi, lex credendi est.”
The law of prayer is the law of belief.
As we pray (or worship),
so we really believe.
“As we pray and believe,
so shall we live”Worship & Theology & Ethics
THE LORD’S PRAYER“This, then, is how you
should pray . . .” Matthew 6:9
The Lord’s Prayer is intended as a general guide to prayer, not a rote form.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
“Our Father in heaven,hallowed be your
name.”
THE LORD’S PRAYER“Father” is popularly
understood to imply a new, personal intimacy in Christ.
More accurately, it emphasizes the corporate identity of those praying.
OT BACKGROUNDTwo tributaries:
Israel David
ISRAEL22Then you shall say to
Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD, Israel is
my firstborn son, 23and I say to you,
“Let my son go that he may serve me.”’
Exodus 4
ISRAEL16For you are our Father,though Abraham does
not know us,and Israel does not acknowledge us;
you, O LORD, are our Father,
our Redeemer from of old is your name.
Isaiah 55
DAVID14 I will be to him (David)
a father, and he shall be to me a
son.2 Samuel 7
DAVID10 In that day the heir to
David’s thronewill be a banner of
salvation to all the world. Isaiah 11 (NLT)
DAVID1 Come, everyone who
thirsts,come to the waters . . .
3Incline your ear, and come to me;
hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love
for David.” Isaiah 55
“OUR FATHER”We are the Exodus people.We are the Messiah’s people.Both identities come with privileges and responsibilities.
WRONG IDENTITIES:THE YOUNGER SON
13Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a
journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property
in reckless living.Luke 15
WRONG IDENTITIES:THE OLDER BROTHER
28But he was angry and refused to go in . . .
His father came out and entreated him, 29but he
answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you,
and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might
celebrate with my friends. 30But when this son of yours
came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you
killed the fattened calf for him!'
TRUE IDENTITY:OUR FATHER
31And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. 32It was fitting to
celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was
dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.'
“OUR FATHER”
“in heaven”We pray as those
redeemed, but also longing for full,
“heavenly” redemption in the future.
“OUR FATHER”“hallowed be your
name”We accept our role as
those who believe (credendi), pray (orandi),
and live (vivendi) in a way that demonstrates to
one another and the world who God is.
LENT AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
Lent is a time to move more intentionally and fully into our identity as sons and daughters in Christ, with God “our
Father.”
THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father in heaven,hallowed be your
Name,your kingdom come,your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sinsas we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial,
and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yoursnow and for ever.
Amen.