Lord's Prayer

All happening at once. So now a further article on the Lord's prayer in The Turning. My basic direction with the article might perhaps be gauged from this quote:

It seems that the Lord's Prayer does not significantly shape the praying consciousness of Christians. It is the real Cinderella of Christian praying; it should be the Belle of the ball but tends to be left behind while the step sisters Acts and Cats go instead. The lack of use of the Lord's Prayer in ordinary practice as a pattern or framework prayer seems strange given that we are meant to be following Christ's teaching and that this is a twice-repeated piece of practical-example teaching from Jesus himself.

There's a lot of it which is reworked material from the book, so it may help as an intro and ?incentive...
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