When Christians say "Our Father" - as we do when reciting the Lord's Prayer - what do we mean by "Our"?
Is it understood that we are speaking for our congregation, our denomination, or for all Christians? Or for all Christians and Jews, since, after all, when Jesus taught the prayer he was a Jew speaking to Jews? Or for all believers in the Abrahamic faiths - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - for whom God is the one Father? Or for all people, regardless of whether or not they believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the One who is also the God of Jesus of Nazareth?
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