A New Year's Prayer

Recently I saw an effort to speak the Lord’s Prayer using our language and categories in North America.[1]

 

Our Father in heaven, 

Please take over and SYNC earth with heaven, 

Where everyone totally respects you, 

Experiences your liberating control, 

And does what you want. 

Please give us all enough to eat today, 

And don’t make us pay for wronging you 

Like we don’t make people pay for wronging us. 

Don’t put us into situations that will test our limits, 

But set us free from evil inside and out. 

Yes, come King Jesus! 

You are the Messiah, the leader of God’s campaign 

to connect, heal and bless the world. 

You have the power. You get the glory now and forever. 

Bring it on! 

(https://www.syncx.org/the-sync-prayer-of-jesus)

 

The idea of syncing earth with Heaven resonates with me. The SYNC web site uses it as an acronym for See Yourself iN Christ and encourages us to begin the process by buying into it ourselves. Along the lines of the song, “Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.” 

 

It’s a good way to start the New Year and live however many days are left to each of us.

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[1] Credit to Stan Nussbaum for drafting the SYNC version of the Lord’s Prayer and to Wayne Dye for quoting it (otherwise I wouldn't have seen it). Two fellow missiologists who both seek to live sync-ed with Christ.