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Does your church recited the Lords prayer?
If so - Why?
and if for some reason, it's not repeated on weekend - how bad would that be?
If your church does no do so, Why NOT
IF a guest preacher came in one Sunday and did so ......
http://www.catholicplanet.com/ebooks/didache.htm So no ScriptureYes, my Church does and it has been in the liturgy since the Church's earliest days. This is also attested to in the first century Didache (Chapter 8)."
So is that a command?In the Lukan account (Luke 11:1-4), Jesus says, “When you pray, say: Father, hallowed by your name..."
So no Scripture
So is that a command?
and my other question
and if for some reason, "it's not repeated on weekend - how bad would that be?"
and I will add - How often? Every day, once a week, month, year???
I don't think it was a suggestion...
Lego = to say, to speak
- to teach
- to exhort, advise, to command, direct
- to point out with words, intend, mean, mean to say
So there is no scripture reference as to how often or even if you must do so..I can't speak to that other than to state it belongs in the liturgy and according to the Didache, it should be recited thrice daily.
So there is no scripture reference as to how often or even if you must do so..
When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking - Matthew 6:6-7I have never prayed the Lord's prayer in public, it has always been a private prayer and my churches of choice are either Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal Holiness, or Independent (providing they are Bible based).
When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking - Matthew 6:6-7
It doesn't bother me not to pray the Lords prayer in church as we are not supposed to use vain repetitions anyway.
First of all - what is praying? It is talking to God!
When you talk to your parents - do you recite the same words every day?
Of course not!
The "Lords Prayer" is simply a recommendation of the things to say.
Repeat after me:Does your church recited the Lords prayer?
If so - Why?
and if for some reason, it's not repeated on weekend - how bad would that be?
If your church does no do so, Why NOT
IF a guest preacher came in one Sunday and did so ......
It's a complete prayer with the words and everything. It starts out with the words "Pray then like this" ?
Repeat after me:
"Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear ...
... so he changed his name to Ed Asner."
Showing that in this day and age, when irrefutable logic is given, the vast majority of people refuse the truth presented, and simply respond with absolute and unanswerable illogic.and what is your point?
... when irrefutable logic is given,...
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When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking - Matthew 6:6-7
It doesn't bother me not to pray the Lords prayer in church as we are not supposed to use vain repetitions anyway.
Because of the context. In the Lukan account, Jesus is asked "to teach us to pray". His reply is "Say..."
- You put # 2 in bold - thus does that mean that is what you think it means? what couldnt it be # 1 or 3?
So there is no scripture reference as to how often or even if you must do so..
Too bad you weren't in Gethsemane so as to reprimand our Blessed Lord about vain repetitions...
Matthew 26:44 ---> "So he [Jesus] left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing."