Is it okay to serve communion outside of a church service?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Hi, it's Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the

Bible and the Christian life every day. You can call us right now with your question at 8333-the-core.

That's 1-833-843-243-2673. You can also email us anytime at Questions at CoreChristianity.com. Now, Adriel just wrote a new book

on the Lord's Prayer. We've been talking about that for the past couple of weeks. And Adira,

we have an email that kind of ties in actually very closely with your book. And let me read it to you.

One of our listeners says, if God is Triune, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

why did Jesus teach the disciples to pray by saying, our Father, who are in heaven, rather than

to pray to the Triune God? And why do Christians pray to the Trinity and each person of the Trinity

individually, rather than just praying to the Father as Jesus taught his disciples.

Yeah, so great question. Ordinarily, we do pray to the Father through Jesus, the Son. This is why we pray

in Jesus' name. And by the power of the Holy Spirit, we're praying in the Spirit as the people of God.

But yes, ordinarily prayer is directed to the Father. We're coming before the throne of grace.

As I said, through Jesus, our great high priest. But there's nothing wrong with praying to

the Son or even to the Holy Spirit. We're talking about one God here,

the same in substance, equal in power and glory,

the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

But I appreciate your question,

thinking about the Lord's Prayer in particular,

and one of the things that I highlighted in my book,

and I think that this is one of the beautiful things

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