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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Praying in Plain English
Matthew 6:1-8
Prayer is the most natural thing in the whole wide world, according to a Bible point of view. Not a rigorous spiritual discipline, nor strenuous theological gymnastics. Much more like breathing in and out.
God's ultimate reality, and real presence in the world, is simply assumed. "In the beginning, God..." says Genesis 1:1. And so, communicating in some way or other with our God is to be expected.
I love the way, in Genesis 3, that God drops in on Adam and Eve in the evening for a stroll around the Garden of Eden, chatting it up on how the day has gone. It encourages me to approach prayer as a spiritual conversation.
Not too casual or chummy, mind you. But open hearted, and open to giving and taking with God about what I'm thinking, feeling, wanting, and needing. And to listening for what God has to say about all that as well.
This week's sermon sets that kind of context for the next two months' worth of messages on The Lord's Prayer.
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