I can usually tell when I’ve read a passage in a commentary by the pencil marks I tend to make as I read. Last Thursday, when the appointed gospel from the Sermon on the Mount included the Lord’s Prayer, words by Professor Ulrich Luz about this prayer have been on mind. He wrote, “It is the openness of the Lord’s Prayer that is its real strength. Countless human beings have been able to find a home in the Lord’s Prayer for their own hopes and petitions and to enter into that home.”[1]
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