Frank and to the Point

PUBLISHED IN THE EVANGEL // September 26, 2007

Pastor Frank Lewis

As First Baptist Nashville looks forward to welcoming Paul Clark as Interim Minister of Music, I hope you will join me making worship a priority on Sunday mornings. To help us think about worship more clearly as a church family, I’m beginning a series of sermons on the Disciple’s Prayer. I’ve wanted to do this for some time and actually wrote on my calendar three years ago to preach this series in the fall of 2007.

During the Festival of Homiletics hosted by First Baptist Nashville earlier this year, one of our speakers said that we often try to “fix” worship by adding things to the room, or to the order of service, or to the sermon, etc. Then he said, “We often try to fix worship because it’s easier to do that than fix something inside us that’s broken.”

The Disciple’s Prayer (or as many call it The Lord’s Prayer) gives us a great opportunity to examine what needs fixing inside of us. (You can see the titles for the series below.) We’ll begin the series with the Lord’s Supper which is a great way to think about the first part of the prayer “Our Father”—it is through the sacrifice of Jesus that we can say those very words. God is our Father because of the redemptive work that Christ accomplished on our behalf and it is through His death and resurrection that we can be called the sons of God.

I’ll see you in worship Sunday!

Learning to Pray Like Jesus

An in-depth look at the Disciples Prayer
Matthew 6:5-13

Our Father in heaven…	A Conversation With Our Father	Oct 7
…hallowed be your name	May We Worship?	Oct 14
…your kingdom come	What Did You Expect?	Oct 21
…your will be done on earth, just as it is in heaven	It’s Not About Me	Oct 28
Give us this day our daily bread…	Trusting God for Today’s Needs	Nov 4
Forgive us…as we forgive	The Biggest Things Are Often the Hardest	Nov 11
…lead us not into temptation…deliver us	I Can Find It Myself	Nov 18
…thine is the Kingdom forever	Since There Is a Kingdom, There Must Be a King	Nov 25