Goal: Promote Independent Thought
Why do we recite The Lord's Prayer? Admit it, we've all done it at some point in our lives. But why?
Let's say you are looking to apply for new job at the fine establishment of McDonalds. You go in and request an interview. What is the first thing they do? They give you an application, right? Why? If they gave you a blank sheet of paper and told you to fill out your information, it would cause them 2 major problems: (1) It would not be organized in a format that they could quickly and easily understand and (2) it probably would not have all of the information they would need to consider you for employment.
Now, you take the application and sit at a table to fill it out. For your first name, let's say that instead of actually putting your first name, you put "first name" in the space. For your last name, you put "last name." For your address, you just wrote "my address." Let's say you filled out the entire application this way.
When you're finished, you sit with the manager at the McDonalds and you hand him over your filled-out application. He looks it over, then looks up at you. You can imagine his thought of potentially hiring you has now shifted to whether or not he should be making a call to have you committed to an institution. Picture the look on his face. Got it?
That's the look God gives us when we recite the Lord's prayer template back to Him.
Think!
