{"id":1449,"date":"2006-06-22T04:45:38","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T09:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2006\/06\/22\/lords-prayer-as-pattern-prayer\/"},"modified":"2006-06-22T04:45:38","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T09:45:38","slug":"lords-prayer-as-pattern-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2006\/06\/22\/lords-prayer-as-pattern-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord’s Prayer as Pattern Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Andii Bowsher has recently written a book that might be of some use to you, especially if you\u2019d like to combine structure with spontaneity in your prayer life. His book is called Praying the Pattern<\/em><\/a>, and there is a website at Abbeynous<\/a> that encourages discussion of the book.
\nIt is the best book I\u2019ve seen on teaching how to use the Lord\u2019s Prayer as a pattern for prayer. Bowsher\u2019s little book not only teaches, but provides an abundance of examples and suggestions.
\nHere\u2019s what you get in this book:
\nA nice, brief exposition of the Lord\u2019s Prayer. Not overdone; nothing extravagant.
\nA consideration of the spiritual dynamics of the prayer as a pattern: he explores here why it matters that Jesus does not begin<\/em> with confession (he calls such a pattern the \u2018four spiritual laws\u2019 pattern), etc..
\nA suggestion that Christians build a Lord\u2019s Prayer organizer or scrapbook, in which sections are devoted to the various petitions and we gather and collect our thoughts and poems and pictures, etc. Quite suggestive.
\nA list of other suggestions for ways to use the Lord\u2019s prayer: using stones, cards, computers.
\nA set of reflections on \u201cbody prayer\u201d (Doug Pagitt has a book on this).
\nA clever set of suggestions on how to let the Lord\u2019s Prayer be the guide for constructing a rule of life (Tony Jones wrote a book on this).
\nThe book concludes with an entire set of liturgies (with an apologetic for doing such a thing) that are built on the Lord\u2019s Prayer.
\nNow here\u2019s what this book does: it thinks about prayer, dwells on prayer, and teaches all about prayer through the lens of the pattern of the Lord\u2019s Prayer.
\nWorth having.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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