WHAT'S IN A NAME?
On a regular basis I am asked if our name is Our Father or Our Father's? The answer is that I am not sure based on some of the early notes. Both names reveal a lot about what we believe. First, we believe that God is our Father who has asked us to address Him in this way in the Lord's Prayer that His Son taught us to pray. We are told that we may call upon Him boldly and confidently for help in every trouble just as dear children may ask their dear father. This Father so loved us that He gave His own Son to be one of us and to suffer and die in our place that we might have life. Second, as His baptized children we confess that we have been bought with a price and are no longer our own, but belong to the Father in heaven. We are our Father's own children that He has called into faith through the preaching of the Gospel. Both versions of our name proclaim the blessed Gospel that we have been made children of the heavenly Father and may seek refuge in Him at all times. It is this good news that we long to share with all people.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
On a regular basis I am asked if our name is Our Father or Our Father's? The answer is that I am not sure based on some of the early notes. Both names reveal a lot about what we believe. First, we believe that God is our Father who has asked us to address Him in this way in the Lord's Prayer that His Son taught us to pray. We are told that we may call upon Him boldly and confidently for help in every trouble just as dear children may ask their dear father. This Father so loved us that He gave His own Son to be one of us and to suffer and die in our place that we might have life. Second, as His baptized children we confess that we have been bought with a price and are no longer our own, but belong to the Father in heaven. We are our Father's own children that He has called into faith through the preaching of the Gospel. Both versions of our name proclaim the blessed Gospel that we have been made children of the heavenly Father and may seek refuge in Him at all times. It is this good news that we long to share with all people.