A Walk Through

Our New Evening

Prayer Liturgy Sunday, November 19

Pulls us out of

- The painful past

- The distracted present

- The anxious future

And leads us into “Divine therapy”

(Brian Zahnd’s Prayer School )

Liturgical Prayer…

1. Do you pray through this quietly or out loud?

2. What if you know you don’t have time to pray

through the whole thing in one sitting?

3. What Bible translation do you use?

4. Is there a larger print version available?

5. Others?

Questions Received So Far…

A brief walkthrough the history

of Christian theological evolution…

- The creation story

- The covenant with Abraham

- The covenant with Israel

- The doctrine of the incarnation

- The doctrine of the Trinity

- A common prayer of God’s

people throughout history

Address

One of the oldest, most common

forms of prayer in our history

- Psalm 51:15

- The “Gloria Patri” or “Gloria”

- Prayer/response in many

church traditions

- “Hallelujah” throughout the

year, except during Lent…

- Prayed in the plural on purpose

First Prayers

A major component of prayer life

in the Eastern tradition

- Often repeated as part of

ascetic prayer practice

- Espoused by early Church

fathers as a way to open up the

heart to God’s voice/presence

Jesus Prayer

From the Book of Common Prayer

- Continues the posture of

descent into God’s presence

- Acknowledges sins of both

commission and omission

- Again, prayed in the plural…

- Eludes to the Jesus Creed that we

end our service with each week

Confession of Sin

From the Book of Common Prayer

- Spoken or sung

- Written in 1674

- Originally intended as the

ending of a morning and

evening hymn for Winchester

College in the UK

The Doxology

Chose the “sins” version because

sometimes I think we need to

remember that we live in a world

marred by sin, one in which we

both passively experience sin’s

destructive power, as well as

actively contribute to it...

The Lord’s Prayer

An historic creed of the Church

dating back to the 4th century

- Represented the core tenets

of the early Church’s

“Rule of Faith”

- Confesses the “essentials”

- Offers specific responses to

several Christological heresies

circulating at the time…

The Nicene Creed

Against Christological heresies like:

- Docetism Clark Kent Jesus

Jesus as Superman, not really human

The Nicene Creed

Against Christological heresies like:

- Docetism Clark Kent Jesus

Jesus as Superman, not really human

- Adoptionism Over-achiever Jesus

Jesus as chosen/divinized by God

The Nicene Creed

Against Christological heresies like:

- Docetism Clark Kent Jesus

Jesus as Superman, not really human

- Adoptionism Over-achiever Jesus

Jesus as chosen/divinized by God

- Eutychianism Blended/Alloy Jesus

Jesus as “other,” neither human/divine

The Nicene Creed

Against Christological heresies like:

- Docetism Clark Kent Jesus

Jesus as Superman, not really human

- Adoptionism Over-achiever Jesus

Jesus as chosen/divinized by God

- Eutychianism Blended/Alloy Jesus

Jesus as “other,” neither human/divine

- Apollinarianism Download Jesus

Hybrid: human body/divine mind/soul

The Nicene Creed

Against Christological heresies like:

- Arianism In-between Jesus

not human or divine; first creature;

had a beginning; this theory was

growing in popularity/influence

outside of Alexandria and needed

to be countered/clarified…

- “Of one being/substance…”

The Nicene Creed

From the Book of Common Prayer

- Originally “…Lord Christ”

- “…Jesus” is more natural for me

An Evening Prayer

A prayer reflecting the Trinitarian

nature of the Christian faith

- Dates back to the 5th century

- Standard part of liturgical

tradition in the Eastern

Orthodox and Eastern

Catholic church

An Trisagion Prayer

Prayer For MercyThe kyrie eleison is highly esteemed

in both the Eastern Orthodox and

Western liturgical traditions…

- Matthew 15:22; Luke 18:39

- A prayer of petition

- A prayer of thanksgiving

“There is a different form of

Compline for each day of the week.

Each is named after an individual

from the era of the Celtic Saints,

serving as another reminder of the

example set by ‘good ones of old’

(i.e. the “communion of saints” or

“great cloud of witnesses”) who

inspire us to seek God as they did.”

Compline Prayers

Confession…A common acclamation of faith

across multiple church traditions,

and a condensed declaration of the:

- Incarnation, crucifixion Christ has

died

- Resurrection, ascension Christ is

risen

- Eschaton Christ will come again

1. Do you pray through this quietly or out loud?

2. What if you know you don’t have time to pray

through the whole thing in one sitting?

3. What Bible translation do you use?

4. Is there a larger print version available?

5. Others?

Questions Received So Far…

A Walk Through

Our New Evening

Prayer Liturgy Sunday, November 19

Hear, O Israel:

the Lord our God, the Lord is one;

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,

and with all your soul, and with all your mind,

and with all your strength.’

And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

There is no other commandment

greater than these.”

Mark 12