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Praying the Good News
When Jesus went about telling people the good news, he gave them a prayer to pray. The word gospel, meaning ‘good news,’ doesn’t feature explicitly in this prayer. But what the prayer does instead is to give us an important way of getting inside the good news – or perhaps we should say, letting the good news get inside us. I said earlier that our calling is not simply to believe the good news. It is to become good-news people. And we can’t do this by simply trying hard. We can only do it through prayer. And if Jesus himself was and is the ultimate good-news person, then the prayer he gave his followers is the best possible place to start…
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