Archbishop: children should learn the Lord’s Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer should be taught to children in the nation’s schools, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.
Dr Rowan Williams’ comment came as a survey revealed that today’s children are half as likely to know the Prayer compared to their counterparts in the 1970s.
Dr Williams, who is due to step down later this year, said: “I don’t think it’s too difficult to introduce children to this and introduce it in plain language and say not ‘You’ve got to pray this,’ but this is something that’s really, really important to lots and lots of people and can change their lives.”...
I can see the Catholic-lite Archbishop supporting forms rather than knowledge about Christianity. Lord's prayer is too often used as a mantra, so often repeated that it loses its meaning. It was designed to be a model not a chant.
However, I have nothing against anyone memorizing it or for that matter the following:
Matthew 22:34 ¶ But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. 35 One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, 36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" 37 And He said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 38 "This is the great and foremost commandment. 39 "The second is like it, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 "On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets."---NASB
"The Lord’s Prayer should be taught to children in the nation’s schools, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said"
Whats this Rowan? Evangelism through the schools because the C.of.E cannot reach anybody anymore - children or adults!!
Desperate measures for Liberals trying to justify their existance under the title of "church."
Phil 3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
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