Our Confessions on Prayer
White Horse Inn
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🗓️ 17 July 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The different traditions emerging from the Protestant Reformation each bring helpful tools and perspectives to cultivating a life of prayer. In this episode of White Horse Inn, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Adriel Sanchez reflect on the differences and similarities regarding prayer within the Anglican, Lutheran, and Presbyterian traditions, sharing how their tradition’s history, liturgy, and resources have shaped their approach to and practice of prayer.
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| 0:00.0 | If you don't understand who you are in Christ, you're not going to pray in faith. |
| 0:07.0 | If you don't think that Christ has done everything to make you right in the eyes of God, |
| 0:10.6 | you're going to pray to sort of try and get his attention to prove yourself to him |
| 0:14.8 | that you're worthy of being there. |
| 0:16.8 | Prayer is going to become a work that makes you right in the eyes of God. |
| 0:20.6 | What the confessions show, I think, clearly, is that prayer is a gift that you've been granted |
| 0:25.6 | on account of the shed blood of Jesus Christ and you can go before God with confidence that |
| 0:30.3 | Christ is on everything necessary to bring you into the presence of God. |
| 0:34.0 | Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe, |
| 0:41.0 | the masses would gather for discussion and debate over the latest ideas sweeping the land. |
| 0:47.0 | From one such meeting place, a small Cambridge inn called The White Horse, the Reformation came to the English-speaking world. |
| 0:54.8 | Carrying on the tradition, welcome to the White Horse Inn. |
| 0:58.8 | There came a time in Luke 11 when Jesus's disciples realized their poverty in the area of prayer. |
| 1:09.0 | They came to Jesus asking in verse 1, Lord, teach us to pray. There may have been some jealousy |
| 1:16.3 | or at least some discomfort as they noted that the disciples of John the Baptist had learned |
| 1:21.6 | to pray. What Jesus gave them was a beautiful piece of |
| 1:24.9 | liturgy to be memorized and repeated. The Lord's Prayer, which we had just |
| 1:30.3 | discussed in the past few episodes. The Lord's prayer encompassed |
| 1:33.7 | acknowledgement of God's holiness, authority, majesty, and graciousness. It confessed |
| 1:38.8 | our failures, our need to both be forgiven and to forgive and our total dependence on God even for everyday |
| 1:46.5 | needs. And it included the petition to see the kingdom of heaven reflected here on earth. |
| 1:53.6 | Its comprehensiveness was all the more startling because of its brevity. |
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