The Real Lord’s Prayer
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Please find ways to do some Bible study on your own throughout the week. Find ways to connect with each other throughout the week. We really need to encourage each other.
Check the website for update videos on the top of the web page. Youtube channel. Bulletin is being posted on Friday. It will have a direct link to a sermon that I will discuss the following Sunday. Will also continue to post those links on facebook page and group.
Biggest issue is making sure we are continuing to teach our children and teens. Do that either through your family or share bible studies with each other. Those that can, use a 2 way communication to keep up a sense of community.
I talked about Jesus looking up into Heaven and praying. Have you ever changed your body position in prayer and felt a different sense of what that prayer is about? Raising Hands, kneeling, sitting, looking up looking down, standing
What term do you typically use when addressing God in prayer?
Could you/would you ever call him Dad?
John 17:3 (ESV) — 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
How does building a relationship with God constitute eternal life?
How is getting to know God like getting to know your spouse?
In Jn 17:15 Jesus asked God to bring him back to Heaven. Why do you think Jesus longed to be in Heaven?
Do you think most Christians long to be in heaven? Why or why not?
In vs 6ff Jesus prays for the protection of those he is ministering to. His disciples in specific, and vs 20 Christians in general.
So, does that mean that when bad things happen to us, we really aren’t Christians? God’s protecting all real Christians, right?
I love vs 11: John 17:11 (NCV) — 11 I am coming to you; I will not stay in the world any longer. But they are still in the world. Holy Father, keep them safe by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they will be one, just as you and I are one.
How can we be one like God and Jesus?
What does that look like in our congregation?
Can we all be one if we are never together?
John 17:23–24 (NLT) — 23 I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. 24 Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began!
What purpose does the church have according to this part of Jesus’ prayer?
How are we telling the world about the love of Jesus for them?
John 17:25–26 (NLT) — 25 “O righteous Father, the world doesn’t know you, but I do; and these disciples know you sent me. 26 I have revealed you to them, and I will continue to do so. Then your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them.”
How do Jesus words from 2000 years ago, still ring true today?