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The Disciples' Prayer

  • Phillp A. Ross
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To pray "Our Father" is to confess the Trinity, and to identify one's self as a child of God by regeneration. It is an expression of our unity in Christ. Unity is not a function of beliefs, interpretation or doctrine, nor of administration as if all Christians must belong to one centrally administered organization. Not at all! Rather, Christian unity is a function of prayer. Christian unity is established upon prayer and is the fruit of prayer. Christian unity issues from common prayer, so where Christian unity does not exist, the fault is a lack of common prayer. But Christian unity is not a product of prayer, as if we can create Christian unity by praying for it. Christian unity is not something that we must create. It is not a function of human effort. It is not something that we can do, or that we need to do. Rather, Christian unity is God-given. It is God's church. He created it. He defined it. He upholds it. Not us! Christian unity is an attitude, an orientation, a preference, a commitment, a presupposition.