The Lord’s Prayer, as it is known, was never meant to be
something to chant down the centuries together.
It was meant as a template of the sort of things to pray. Jesus taught
that we were not meant to pray in public in order to impress each other with our
spirituality, but to pray in secret in the privacy of our home alone. When the
prayer is just between us and God there is no room for pride and we certainly
can’t impress God. Prayer is not for us to change what God is doing but to get
ourselves in line with His wishes, “thy will be done.” That is my favourite line from this
prayer. When you submit to God’s will
peace comes, because you know His will is the very best, even though it may be
difficult to live through.
First of all thanks to Fat Prophet for your interest. I see from your blog you are having trouble commenting. To get back to my assessed service. Criticism albeit constructive is harder for some to take than others. I felt a little crushed after my assessed service but then remembered I had recorded it on my dictaphone. I listened to it all through and although my assessors were quite right about me speaking a little quickly and rushing from item to item, I was actually very pleased with the content of my sermon and how I presented it. So I have decided to take heart. I highly recommend other trainees to record your services. You can hear your good points and your bad and there is no argument about it, it is all caught on the recorder.
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