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In the Our Father Jesus teaches us that God is as intimate and unconditionally loving to us as parents are to their children. Jesus asks us to pray in the plural, addressing God as our father, a relationship that envisions us as a community of God's kin and kind. We pray that God's kin*dom will come, that we become on earth a community of love like that in heaven. Jesus' prayer does not let us ask just for our own daily bread or for forgiveness for ourselves; we must pray as a community in the plural and commit ourselves to bread and justice for others in the proportion we want for ourselves. In the Our Father Christians inherit Jesus' transforming vision for us and our world.
We pray Jesus' prayer too often not to reflect on what this most familiar of Christian prayers means and asks of us. This book provides groups and individuals a tool for reflecting on Jesus' prayer, its challenge to us, and questions people in our times ask of it. Each chapter ends with a Reflect section that contains questions for group faith-sharing and a concluding ritual to pray and celebrate. Some chapters also include prayer suggestions called Practice.
Chapter 1: Our Father, Our MotherChapter 2: Hallowing God's NameChapter 3: God's Kin*dom ComeChapter 4: On Earth As in HeavenChapter 5: Daily Bread for AllChapter 6: Forgiving DebtsChapter 7: What Tests Us?
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