Question 41: What is the Lord’s Prayer?

Answer: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Kids Answer: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Key Scripture: Matthew 6:9

Additional Scripture: Luke 11:1-13

The disciples followed Jesus for over three years and in all that time they never asked to be taught how to perform miracles, how to evangelize, how to preach, or how to study scripture. Instead, they asked only to be taught how to pray. Could it be that they assumed that if they could only learn to pray like Jesus, they could then live like Jesus? May we have that same desire to grow in prayer.

Questions to ask: (To help process the truth we learned. Ask yourself, a friend, your group, or your family questions to talk through it together)

• What does it mean for God’s name to be “hallowed?”

• Is there a connection between my forgiveness and my forgiveness of others?

• What does it mean to address God as Father?