Why teaching “Our Father” was so revolutionary

Photo by Jill Sauve on Unsplash This post was not meant as a Christmas message. But this time of year is a good time to contemplate the coming of a particularly amazing baby. And like all babies, he had a father.

We are examining the Jesus Prayer, usually called The Lord’s Prayer, exploring what it can teach us from different views of who Jesus was — political rebel, great moral teacher or Son of God/Messiah/Christ. The second post in the series.

We think nothing of it now, but when Jesus taught his followers and friends to pray addressing his prayer to “Our Father” it was likely seen as…