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Telford Work\u2019s style in Ain\u2019t Too Proud to Beg<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em> is to begin somewhere, not always one might think, and meander his way to the principle idea in one of the petitions in the Lord\u2019s Prayer. This week he begins here:
\nWith three woes against our culture. A woe of the lie, where he deals with Theodore Dalrymple\u2019s Life at the Bottom<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em> who focuses on the ideology of dependence instead of responsibility that emerges from liberalism; a woe of evil, where he focuses on M. Scott Peck; and a woe of sloth, where he focuses on depression and the sense of a need to be treated instead of saved.
\nIs there a solution? Humans, Work argues, are wretched (Rom 7:24).
\nAnd here Work\u2019s chp really heats up and opens up new insight into the Lord\u2019s Prayer. He asks if the last petition \u2014 \u201cdo not lead us into temptation, rather deliver us from the Evil One\u201d \u2014 is the way to end a prayer? I like this question because we all know that the doxological ending was added later and that changes the ending \u2014 from a rather negative plea for deliverance to a glorious exaltation of God. The ending as it now is prepares for the treacherous road to Jerusalem. \u201cThat we have not wanted to conclude here is a further sign that perhaps we should\u201d (189).
\nThe prayer becomes apocalyptic: Jesus urges us to pray to be delivered from the End. \u201cThis is the Lord\u2019s disaster plan\u201d (194). The word \u201clead,\u201d he suggests, means do not carry us along with Christ who will endure that time; Christ endures it for us.
\nThe solution to the woes: truth overcomes lies, good overcomes evil, and joy overcomes sloth.
\nNext week we finish this book and the week after that we begin with Edith Humphrey, Ecstasy and Intimacy<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"