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• Luke 11:1-2 . . He was praying in a certain place, and when he had
finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John
taught his disciples.” He said to them, “When you pray, say: yada, yada,
yada, etc."
When I was a little boy, just about every night at bedtime I recited the
classic lay-me-down-to-sleep children's prayer. In my opinion; a rote prayer
like that one is okay for getting kids started communicating with God.
In the beginning; Jesus' disciples were full-grown men physically. But they
were just babies spiritually. A prayer like the Our Father is a good place for
spiritually immature Christians to begin, but it's not a good place for them to
stay.
• 1Cor 13:11 . .When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child,
reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
Now take Jesus for example. There is no record of him ever even once
praying the Our Father. In point of fact, when examining Jesus' prayers, it's
readily apparent that he typically prayed in a conversational style instead of
reciting rote. Two good examples of his style are located at Matt 11:25-26
and John 17:1-26. Jesus' style is the style that mature Christians are to
follow as their role model.
• Eph 4:15 . .We should grow in every way into him who is the head, Christ
• Eph 4:11-13 . . And he gave some as apostles, others as prophets, others
as evangelists, others as pastors and teachers, to equip the holy ones for
the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to
the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to
the extent of the full stature of Christ
When people have been Christians for some time, and still reciting the Our
Father, I'd have to say that their spiritual growth has been stunted, i.e.
they're not developing properly because they haven't been getting adequate
nourishment.
NOTE: The Our Father is God-given, the Hail Mary is Vatican-given.
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• Luke 11:1-2 . . He was praying in a certain place, and when he had
finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John
taught his disciples.” He said to them, “When you pray, say: yada, yada,
yada, etc."
When I was a little boy, just about every night at bedtime I recited the
classic lay-me-down-to-sleep children's prayer. In my opinion; a rote prayer
like that one is okay for getting kids started communicating with God.
In the beginning; Jesus' disciples were full-grown men physically. But they
were just babies spiritually. A prayer like the Our Father is a good place for
spiritually immature Christians to begin, but it's not a good place for them to
stay.
• 1Cor 13:11 . .When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child,
reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
Now take Jesus for example. There is no record of him ever even once
praying the Our Father. In point of fact, when examining Jesus' prayers, it's
readily apparent that he typically prayed in a conversational style instead of
reciting rote. Two good examples of his style are located at Matt 11:25-26
and John 17:1-26. Jesus' style is the style that mature Christians are to
follow as their role model.
• Eph 4:15 . .We should grow in every way into him who is the head, Christ
• Eph 4:11-13 . . And he gave some as apostles, others as prophets, others
as evangelists, others as pastors and teachers, to equip the holy ones for
the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to
the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to
the extent of the full stature of Christ
When people have been Christians for some time, and still reciting the Our
Father, I'd have to say that their spiritual growth has been stunted, i.e.
they're not developing properly because they haven't been getting adequate
nourishment.
NOTE: The Our Father is God-given, the Hail Mary is Vatican-given.
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