Lord's prayer

Philomena Ofori-Nipaah D.Min.

This research examines how a Reformed understanding of prayer can be enriched by the use of the Prayer of Nehemiah and the Lord’s Prayer. The project demonstrates that a better-informed theology of prayer results in a deepening of the spiritual practices of clergy and church leaders, allowing them to slow down and be involved in a faithful and sustained discipline. This helps them develop a deeper relationship with God. The results are established by a comparison of participants’ surveys taken before, during, and after they have practiced different prayer rules and through the interviews I conducted with the participants.

Phillip Zachary Reno D.Min.

The thesis of the praxis director’s ministry praxis was to use the theological truths embodied within the Lord’s Prayer for the purpose of discipleship of new believers at the Summit Church, Saline County, in Benton Arkansas. The director’s method of research was to identify the doctrinal truths within the Lord’s Prayer through an exegesis of the text as well as researching historical uses of the Lord’s Prayer for discipleship. The director developed and presented a teaching curriculum based on the doctrinal truths of the Lord’s Prayer to new believers within his church context. The praxis director concluded that using the truths of the Lord’s Prayer in the discipleship process of new believers was greatly beneficial.

Matthew James Clausen

In this project the researcher (a) studied the meaning of the Lord's Prayer in its first century Biblical context, (b) explored current literature related to the applications of the Lord's Prayer in the life of the believer and in community discipleship, (c) developed a strategy for using the Lord's Prayer as a model for prayer in the adult community groups at First Baptist Church of Minneapolis, (d) implemented the strategy within specific adult community groups and (e) evaluated the impact of the use of the strategy on participants.

Rex T Kaney

The project assisted a community of faith in broadening its understanding of and response to the relationship between the inward journey of spiritual and emotional growth and the outward journey of mission and social involvement. The study focused on an eight-session course based upon the Lord's Prayer. The sessions, which were experiential in nature, were designed to enable participants to examine and share the nature of their prayer lives, and to explore ways in which they might expand their understanding of the grace of prayer. In addition, participants were asked to read and respond to Leonard Boff's The Lord's Prayer: The Prayer of Integral Liberation, which is an interpretation of the Lord's Prayer from a liberation theology perspective. A third component of the project was a series of sermons on the petitions of the prayer. The evaluation document of this project indicates that it did enable participants to broaden their understanding of and response to the relationship between inward spiritual development and participation in systemic and social changes.

Dean L Grabill

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W Wayland Stephens

The thesis of this project is that the Lord's Prayer embodies a set of prayer principles which, when learned and practiced by followers of Christ, measurably enhance their practice of prayer. The research includes an eight-week, fourteen hour seminar/workshop that features the prayer principles from the Lord's Prayer in theory and in practice. A prayer survey given before and after the training measures changes in the prayer practice of the trainees. The trainees' use of prayer principles from the Lord's Prayer improves their daily practice of prayer twenty-eight percent which suggests that the thesis is correct.

Robert J Hinson

This project helps Christians enhance and enlarge their prayer life. The Lord's Prayer was used as a model of relationship, type order and content to teach prayer. A series of eight sermons on the Lord's Prayer was developed and delivered over a period of Sundays in January 1984. Weekly feedback sessions were used to determine the hearers' understanding of the Lord's Prayer and the resulting effect on their prayer life. Recorded comments at the last feedback session and written evaluations of those attending the feedback sessions a year later marked some long-lasting benefits.

Robin Harvey Cowin

The project was the result of a study of different practices of meditative prayer. The result of this project was a workshop that taught the Lord's Prayer as the scriptural basis, the prayer of the heart as the meditative process model, and journaling as an evaluative method. The project was carried out in a prayer workshop in the First Baptist Church of Okeene, Oklahoma in February, 1984. The workshop setting allowed a free interchange of ideas and dealt with the needs of the individual participants. The in-depth study of the Lord's Prayer and the practice of the prayer of the heart were found to be the most beneficial aspects of the project.