The Lord's Prayer

Every Christian must have been familiar with the Lord's Prayer. Our Father prayer is a prayer found in Matthew and Luke. In my church - perhaps also for most people - this prayer is often used at each end of the general intercessions or prayer in the worship-worship. Prayer is believed by most Christians is the perfect prayer or prayer of the great so they have to mention at the end of intercessory prayer. However, the question is whether this prayer is the prayer of the great? Does this prayer had to be mentioned in each end of intercessory prayer? Actually What is the purpose Jesus taught this prayer to His disciples?

Actually we can not say so easily that the Lord's Prayer is the great prayer. Maybe we think so because this prayer is the prayer taught by Jesus. But, if we read the text of the Lord's Prayer in Matthew and Luke carefully, then we will discover that in fact this prayer is not prayer that is literally interpreted as the great prayer. Why? The real reason this is prayer suggested by Jesus to his disciples if they wanted to pray. In the Gospel of Matthew, it is written that Jesus said "pray ye therefore ...". In the Gospel Lukaspun aligned with the phrase "when you drift, lets say ...". This shows that is meant here is that if we pray Jesus advocate must have the elements that exist in the prayer taught by Him. For example, if we pray, at first just say to whom the prayer is addressed (Our Father who art in heaven ...), and then we ask, ask for, everything we need or gumuli to God and ask God to forgive the sins we have done against his will, and ask for an order that He would keep us from all temptation. This prayer is also related to the purpose of each Gospel.

 Need we recall that the purpose of writing the Gospel of Matthew is aiming to lift the Christology of Jesus as the King who would bring deliverance for the Jewish people from colonialism. Luke's Gospel figus aims to describe Jesus in elevating the poor who are always oppressed. So, the prayer that Jesus taught that swordfish can be easy to say that prayer is a prayer that perfect or great.

So, thus the Our Father tidah should be mentioned in each end of intercessory prayer or public prayer. Because prayer that Jesus taught it - the elements contained in the prayer - that we must enter in the dao that we ucapoa we say. So, do not impress the people who say the Our Father at the end of the general intercessions or prayer are a people who were reading sacred mantras, or people do not have to worry when I have to wait for the cue to say the Lord's Prayer at the end of the general intercessions or prayers.

Hopefully this article useful for us all.
This my opinion, what do you think?