These slides accompany the thirty minute radio podcast for 29/11/2015 from Grace Rural Wales Partnership at https://www.buzzsprout.com/47879/328835-grwp-radio-podcast-2015-11-29-the-lord-s-prayer which examines the recent furore about the rejection of a cinema advert featuring the Lord's Prayer. The podcast features a 15 minute expose of this 2,000 year old prayer's controversial contents and some controversial responses from members of the public to the prohibition.

1. Welcome to the GRWP Radio podcast
29th November 2015
“Give praise to the LORD, proclaim his name;
make known among the nations what he has done.”
1 Chronicles 16:8
https://www.buzzsprout.com/47879/328835-grwp-radio-podcast-2015-11-29-the-lord-s-prayer

2. Matthew 6:1-15
‘Be careful not to practise your righteousness in front of others to be
seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in
heaven.
2 ‘So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as
the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honoured
by others.
Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what
your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret.
Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

3. Matthew 6:1-15
‘And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray
standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by
others.
Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your
Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in
secret, will reward you.
7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they
think they will be heard because of their many words.
8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you
ask him.

4. Matthew 6:1-15
‘This, then, is how you should pray:
‘“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.”
14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly
Father will also forgive you.
15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your
sins.

5. The Odeon, Cineworld and
Vue chains, which control 80%
of screens around the country,
have refused to allow a C of E-
produced advert featuring
the Lord's Prayer
to be shown before
Star Wars: the Force Awakens,
released on 18 December.
They say they have a
policy of not running
material that is
political or religious in
nature as it carries
“the risk of upsetting,
or offending,
audiences”.
So we conducted a
quick online straw
poll to canvass
opinion …

6. Everybody
surveyed
claimed to
know it well

7. Nearly 97% of our
anonymous
respondents consider
the Lord’s Prayer
non-offensive

9. Matthew 6:1-15
• Introduction

10. Matthew 6:1-15
• Introduction
• Context – your righteousness must exceed …Matthew 5:20

11. Matthew 6:1-15
• Introduction
• Context – your righteousness must exceed …Matthew 5:20
• The three pillars of piety
ΠAlmsgiving, vv. 2-4
ΠPrayer, vv. 5-8 (with vv. 9-15 as a diversion to give a prayer pattern)
ΠFasting, vv. 16-18

12. Matthew 6:1-15
• Introduction
• Context – your righteousness must exceed the most ‘religious’…Matthew 5:20
• The three pillars of piety
ΠAlmsgiving, vv. 2-4
ΠPrayer, vv. 5-8 (with vv. 9-15 as a diversion to give a prayer pattern)
ΠFasting, vv. 16-18
• Not a liturgy but suggested pointers for prayer

13. Matthew 6:1-15
• Introduction
• God’s Glory, vv. 9-10

14. Matthew 6:1-15
• Introduction
• God’s Glory, vv. 9-10
•OURFather in Heaven

15. Matthew 6:1-15
• Introduction
• God’s Glory, vv. 9-10
• OUR Father in Heaven
• Hallowed be yourName

16. Matthew 6:1-15
• Introduction
• God’s Glory, vv. 9-10
• OUR Father in Heaven
• Hallowed be your Name
• Your Kingdom come

17. Matthew 6:1-15
• Introduction
• God’s Glory, vv. 9-10
• Our needs, vv. 11-13
• Our Food
“Give us today our daily bread.”

18. Matthew 6:1-15
• Introduction
• God’s Glory, vv. 9-10
• Our needs, vv. 11-13
• Our Food
“Give us today our daily bread.”
• Our Failures
“And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.”

19. Matthew 6:1-15
• Introduction
• God’s Glory, vv. 9-10
• Our needs, vv. 11-13
• Our Food
“Give us today our daily bread.”
• Our Failures
“And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.”
• Our Frailty
“And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one”

20. Matthew 6:1-15
• Introduction
• God’s Glory, vv. 9-10
• Our needs, vv. 11-13
• Christ’s conclusion, vv. 14-15 … remember that God is your Judge

21. Matthew 6:1-15
• Introduction
• God’s Glory, vv. 9-10
• Our needs, vv. 11-13
• Christ’s conclusion, vv. 14-15
• Conclusion
• Offensive?

22. Matthew 6:1-15
• Introduction
• God’s Glory, vv. 9-10
• Our needs, vv. 11-13
• Christ’s conclusion, vv. 14-15
• Conclusion
• Offensive?
• Divisive?
Sheep ‘shedding’ gate

23. Matthew 6:1-15
• Introduction
• God’s Glory, vv. 9-10
• Our needs, vv. 11-13
• Christ’s conclusion, vv. 14-15
• Conclusion
• Offensive?
• Divisive?
• Conclusions for mission … communicating across cultures

24. Matthew 6:1-15