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Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:50:14.000Z
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Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

I don't know how many of you pay particular attention to technology but I do

I take a glance at the summary that appears every day on my Droid phone.

and I ran across an interesting story this week.

It actually marked a kind of milestone that I think all of us probably expected to come

We just didn't realize that would come so quickly.

It turns out that one of the most popular social networking sites on the web

as they realized their five hundred millionth

half a billion people subscribing to this particular online networking web site.

Now to put that in perspective, if it were a nation-

half a billion people subscribers would make it the third largest nation.

and that number of people in the frenzy over the social networking website I think reflects a

allow people to quickly share their thoughts and keep

connections with friends and family around the world it turns out.

How many of you are carrying a cell phone

Probably the majority of us. I hope you remembered to turn it off

That's not my reason for asking that question though.

When cell phones were not a necessity but a luxury.

highlights that need that we have to remain connected

the disciples are realizing this very profound need

for not just staying connected with one another,

They've been noticing John the Baptist's disciples praying.

And they asked Jesus a simple but beautiful question. Lord can you teach us how to pray?

One of our most treasured prayers and one of the prayers that can be shared

no matter what brand of Christianity we happen to fall under.

It's a prayer that unites us and it's a prayer that's easy for us to remember because

I want to spend some time this morning unpacking

Because although we’ve known it from a time when we were very young,

I think sometimes because we are so familiar with something

In order to do this I need to go back to second grade and sister Mary Francis and

ACTS outlines the four different kinds of prayer

that are contained with the Lord's Prayer.

That's what an adoration prayer means.  And we echo that

Because we are the creature and he is the creator

we also owe God our adoration and thankfulness for giving us this gift of life he

but also for the wonders he has created within that world.

The beginning of that prayer places things in proper perspective.

The lord's prayer helps us to remember that.

The “C” in the acronym ACTS is for contrition

Oh there's a word that makes us uncomfortable

But that's exactly what a prayer of contrition

That we messed up and we need  forgiveness of God and the forgiveness of one another.

In Matthew's version of the Lord's Prayer (the one that we pray to get most often)