Fast Fridays: 30 Minutes for God
"Fast Fridays" are a weekly gathering by videoconference for reminder that God is in our life -- even on a Friday evening!.
We will take thirty minutes only to refresh, enliven and re-dedicate ourselves to God.
Friday, July 26: the Living God
This week, Friday, July 26, we will discuss the "Our Father" prayer and the concept of the "Living God," which is a uniquely Christian insight.
The "Jesus prayer"
Lord Jesus Christ, son of the living God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
"The living God"
- what a "living God" is not:
- an object or statue
- idolatry?
- ritualism and superstition
- an object or statue
- what a "living God" is:
- present
- personal
Our Father
- contemplating "Our Father"
- the "Seven petitions"
Christ reveals the Father
At that time Jesus said in reply,* “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike.
Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.
At that very moment he rejoiced [in] the holy Spirit and said, “I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him."