2. Lord, teach us to pray.
Luke 11:1

3. Our Father in heaven … 1. A pattern not a script
2. Focus on relationship

4. Forgive us our sins … 1. Why do we need forgiveness?
2. What are we actually asking for?
3. What has this to do with others?
4. How to pray?

5. 1. Why do we need daily forgiveness?
“Repent and be baptised every one of you
in the name of Jesus Christ for the
forgiveness of your sins.” Acts 2:38
“For Christ died for sins once and for all
… to bring you to God.” Peter 3:18
“I give them eternal life, and they shall
never perish; no-one can snatch them
out of my hand.” John 10:28

6. The Church is the bride of Christ

7. Walking in the Light This is the message we have heard
from him and proclaim to you, that 
God is light, and in him is no darkness
at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship
with him while we walk in darkness,
we lie and do not practise the truth. 
(1 John 1:5, 6)

8. Living in Relationship

9. Healing and Restoration
‘… God is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness.’
(1 John 1:9)

10. ‘A person who has had a bath needs only to wash his feet; his whole
body is clean.’
( John 13:10)

11. 2. What are we asking for? “…forgive us our debts…” Matthew 6:12
“… forgive us our sins …”
Luke 11:4

12. Sin is rebellion against God
Missing the mark
Lawbreaking

13. 3. Why are forgiveness and forgiving linked?
“…forgive us our debts as we
also have forgiven our debtors…”
Matthew 6:12
“…forgive us our debts as we
also have forgiven our debtors…”
Matthew 6:12

14. 4. How should we pray? ‘Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.’
Psalm 139:23, 24