The Importance of the Lord's Prayer to Christians

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The Importance of the Lord's Prayer to Christians

The Lord’s Prayer is important to Christians because it is what Jesus

gave to his disciples as a form of prayer when they asked him to teach

them how to pray.

Another name for the Lord’s Prayer is the Perfect Prayer. It is

considered the perfect prayer as it includes all the different types

of prayer. Another reason it is called the Perfect Prayer is simply

because Jesus was the one who taught it.

The Lord’s Prayer is accepted and used by all Christians and it

combines us all as members of one community. The prayer stresses what

unites us rather than what divides us.

The Prayer goes:

Our Father, who art in Heaven

Hallowed be thy name

Thy kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven

Give us this day our daily bread

And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against

us

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

In this prayer several different types of prayer are included. The

first type of prayer is to show a statement of faith. This is shown in

the first line of the Prayer ‘Our Father, who art in Heaven’. This

means that by accepting that God is up there, in heaven we acknowledge

that he is very involved in our lives.

The next type of prayer used is in the next line ‘Hallowed be thy

name’. This line shows worship and praise. Through this line we pray

that God may be accepted as holy.

The line after this ‘Thy kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it

is in Heaven’ is a prayer of adoration. This line involves a change of

heart in those who do not yet perfectly follow God’s law.

The next line ‘Give us this day our daily bread’ is a prayer of

intercession in which we are asking for the Bread of the Eucharist

which will help build us up spiritually as normal bread will build us

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