Lord, Teach Us to Pray

This Sunday’s Gospel is a collection of Jesus’s sayings and parables about prayer that contains Luke’s version of the Lord’s Prayer. I propose that we focus upon the Lord’s Prayer and that, for our sermon, we simply walk people through the Lord’s Prayer, phrase by phrase, hoping that they’ll be given new meaning and understanding of prayer in Jesus’s name. Most congregations pray this prayer every Sunday. There are sermons in which we talk about experiences many in the congregation have never had. This Sunday is different. We are focusing upon a common Christian experience, a prayer that they pray “by heart.”