Abba; February 18, 2018; Pastor Rebecca Ellenson; ICCM
I’m reading a book right now called, The Greatest Prayer. In it, John Dominic Crossan says that the Lord’s Prayer is both Christianity’s greatest and strangest payer. Prayed by all Christians it never mentions Christ, prayed in all churches it never mentions church, prayed on all Sundays but never mentions Sundays, called the Lord’s prayer but never mentions Lord. It is prayed by all types of Christians without mention of any of the things that divide the church, doctrines and structures… It is prayed by Christians who emphasize what it never mentions and also prayed by Christians who ignore what it does. …The Lord’s Prayer is … both a revolutionary manifesto and a hymn of hope. Revolutionary because it presumes and proclaims the radical vision of justice that is the core of Israel’s biblical tradition. A hymn, because it presumes and produces poetic techniques that are at the core of Israel’s biblical poetry.” Continue reading “Abba”
