REPENT
Repent means to "do a 180,"
to turn from sin & self,
back to the covenant & God.
Which parable, unique to Luke,
is a story of repentance?
BELIEVE
Belief is not something in your head.
It's not just what you think.
Belief is 3 things:
1. to know something or someone is true
(to be certain or sure)
2. to trust that something or someone
3. to act on that knowledge & trust
prayer
when humans communicate
in utter truthfulness with God
McKnight, 42
- Jesus sought solitude for prayer
- be honest; keep it plain, simple
- don't make it a show
- the Lord's prayer was built on the Kaddish
- to it Jesus adds prayers for others
- the last line is not in the earliest manuscripts of the gospels
Kaddish
Jesus built the Lord's Prayer
on the Kaddish:
Magnified and sanctified be His great name in the world He created according to His will.
May He establish His kingdom during your life, and during your days, and during the life of all the house of Israel, speedily and in the near future.
And say Amen
And, as he so often did,
Jesus made the Kaddish his own.
- added Abba
- name sanctified (not magnified)
- Kingdom established (not soon)
- bread
- forgiveness
- temptation
- no Amen
Jesus' prayer has two parts:
the "You", and the "we/us"
You
May your Name be hallowed
May your kingdom come
May your will be done on earth
WE / us
Give us our daily bread
Forgive us our sins as we forgive those...
Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us...
SHema & Kaddish
Jesus changes these 2 central Jewish creeds:
Shema from love God only to
love God-and-others
Kaddish from concern for God only to
concern for God-and-others
Shema of Judaism: love God (by following Torah)
Shema of Jesus: love God (by following Jesus)
and love others
Kaddish of Judaism: petition for God's glory
Kaddish of Jesus: petition for Abba's glory,
and petition for others
Love God
May your Name be hallowed
May your kingdom come
May your will be done
LOVE OTHERS
Give us our daily bread
Forgive us our sins
Lead us not into temptation
Pray for what Abba wants,
Pray for what others need,
Then go live it.