{"id":3610,"date":"2012-09-13T19:15:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T23:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2012-09-14T17:08:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T21:08:37","slug":"the-lords-prayer-as-the-gospel-in-miniature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/2012\/09\/the-lords-prayer-as-the-gospel-in-miniature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord’s Prayer is the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019m working on a short essay in which I want argue that the Lord\u2019s Prayer contains the essence of the gospel. It is a gospel prayer that shapes (creates really) a gospeled people.<\/p>\n

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9 <\/sup>\u201c\u2018Our Father in heaven,
\nhallowed be your name,
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>your kingdom come,
\nyour will be done,
\non earth as it is in heaven.
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>Give us today our daily bread.
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>And forgive us our debts,
\nas we also have forgiven our debtors.
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>And lead us not into temptation,
\nbut deliver us from the evil one.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

As I see it the Lord\u2019s prayer is the gospel. It is the prayer the Jewish Messiah taught his disciples to pray, a prayer rooted in the story of Israel containing both elements of the kingdom and the cross, explicit and implicit respectively. The unity of heaven and earth is the telos<\/em> of the gospel and it is the dream and yearning of the gospeled.<\/p>\n

In addition, the Lord\u2019s Prayer contains the demand of discipleship in its vision of a life that is socially just (\u201cdaily bread\u201d) and reconciled (\u201cforgiveness\u201d), a life that perseveres through the trial, both ordinary (lower case \u201ct\u201d) and eschatological (upper case \u201cT\u201d). The gospel is a message of rescue from evil and its perpetrator.<\/p>\n

The Lord\u2019s Prayer strikes a tone of both present realization and future consummation. Ultimately it is God the Father who acts \u2013 this is not behavioral modication, but it is also no less true that as we absorb the prayer, as we make his prayer our own, we \u201cbecome the answer to our prayers\u201d in the words of Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Praying back to God the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray, we get used to saying God\u2019s words as our words. We form habits of hoping that our lives will look more like God\u2019s life . . . We become the kind of community that is the answer to our request (31).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gospel Elements<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. The Messiah<\/li>\n
  2. The Story of Israel<\/li>\n
  3. The Kingdom of God<\/li>\n
  4. The Cross<\/li>\n
  5. The Demand of Discipleship<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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