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As we were saying the Lord's Prayer in Church tonight, I remembered that my mother and our Church of Christ would not say the Lord's prayer.

There was some issue about "your kingdom come" as I recall.

Did your CoC every recite the Lord's prayer?

If they didn't, what was their reasoning to not say it?

Grace wrote:As we were saying the Lord's Prayer in Church tonight, I remembered that my mother and our Church of Christ would not say the Lord's prayer.

There was some issue about "your kingdom come" as I recall.

Did your CoC every recite the Lord's prayer?

If they didn't, what was their reasoning to not say it?

Jesus establishes a physical kingdom when he returns. This is part of Bible prophesy which the church cops out on.
See Isaiah 9.

Grace wrote:As we were saying the Lord's Prayer in Church tonight, I remembered that my mother and our Church of Christ would not say the Lord's prayer.

There was some issue about "your kingdom come" as I recall.

Did your CoC every recite the Lord's prayer?

If they didn't, what was their reasoning to not say it?

Because the kingdom has already come. Didn't you know? The kingdom is The Church! So we couldn't pray for it to come, since it was already there.

Sigh... sometimes I hate that I still know all this bullshit.

We were taught to just replace the phrase, "thy kingdom come" with, "thy kingdom spread," in order to acknowledge that the kingdom had come and that what we now want is for the COC (i.e. the kingdom) to spread. You know, changing the actual language of scripture--no big deal.

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We were encouraged to say "Thy Kingdom HAS come," although I never did that when we said it in school. (Yes, we said the Lord's Prayer and recited the Pledge of Allegiance in school and it didn't hurt anyone.) Of course, "Thy Kingdom come," could also mean, "They Kingdom IS come."

A minister I know taught on the Lord's Prayer and said there's nothing wrong with saying or praying it as written. Non-issue to me.

Wasn't an issue when I was growing up in the CoC.

I went to a public school, and we recited it daily.

GuitarHero wrote:

Grace wrote:As we were saying the Lord's Prayer in Church tonight, I remembered that my mother and our Church of Christ would not say the Lord's prayer.

There was some issue about "your kingdom come" as I recall.

Did your CoC every recite the Lord's prayer?

If they didn't, what was their reasoning to not say it?

Because the kingdom has already come. Didn't you know? The kingdom is The Church! So we couldn't pray for it to come, since it was already there.

Sigh... sometimes I hate that I still know all this bullshit.

classic CoC... Jesus offers a model prayer and the CoC knows better and corrects him.

williamray123 wrote:

GuitarHero wrote:

Grace wrote:As we were saying the Lord's Prayer in Church tonight, I remembered that my mother and our Church of Christ would not say the Lord's prayer.

There was some issue about "your kingdom come" as I recall.

Did your CoC every recite the Lord's prayer?

If they didn't, what was their reasoning to not say it?

Because the kingdom has already come. Didn't you know? The kingdom is The Church! So we couldn't pray for it to come, since it was already there.

Sigh... sometimes I hate that I still know all this bullshit.

classic CoC... Jesus offers a model prayer and the CoC knows better and corrects him.

Jesus shouldn't have been running all over the Holy Land teaching "error" then.

In my Disciples of Christ church, we say it every Sunday. I love it! I have heard that you can think of it like . . .Thy kingdom has come, so they will be done on earth. It works either way.

B.H. wrote:Jesus shouldn't have been running all over the Holy Land teaching "error" then.

One example of the many disagreements between Jesus and the COC.

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