Series: What Jesus Came To Do - Shape a People for His Father’s Glory

        Today: A God-Glorifying Fellowship of Prayer (Lk 11:1-4 & other texts’)

 

 

*** The gospels reveal that Jesus is seeking to form & shape us into a community of_____________. Jesus seeking to form & shape us into a community of___________:

 

I. …through His own remarkable _____________of prayer (Lk 11:1-2 & other texts).

 

 

II. ...through His own clear ____________on prayer (Lk 11:1-4, Mt 6:9-13 & other texts).

*   _______________In God


*   _______________For God
 

* _____________ for my/our needs

 

  

Concl:

 

A Fellowship of God-Centered Prayer

Discussion questions & ideas for digging deeper into Luke 11:1-4 & Mi 6:9-13 (Most questions borrowed or adapted from Haddon Robinson‘s What Jesus Said About Successful Living)

 

  1. Based on our texts, is prayer really necessary? Why?

 

  1. What is the purpose(s) of prayer?

 

  1. In the OT God’s people did not address God as Father. Why does Jesus teach us to do so? Does having God as your Father amaze you?

 

  1. How does Jesus balance intimacy & awe in our understanding of God?

 

  1. How do you picture God when you pray? Does prayer flow from our understanding of God?

 

  1. Do you find prayer easy? What hinders your prayer life?

 

  1. How can we hallow God’s name?

 

  1. If Jesus wants us to be holy why does his model prayer not include any petitions for us to become holy? How does this prayer “make us holy”?

 

  1. What does it mean to pray for God’s Kingdom to come? For His will to be done on earth as in heaven? What does it mean to pray for these things when we are yet living in “enemy territory”?

 

  1. What is the difference in the last 3 requests Jesus gives us?

 

  1. What are these last 3 requests about? Why in that order?

 

  1. What does it mean to pray for daily bread?

 

  1. What does Jesus connect to our own prayers for forgiveness? Why?

 

  1. What does it mean to pray- "lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil”?

 

  1. How could praying & living in the Lord’s Prayer change you?  Change us?

 

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