The Biggest Mistake People Make with Prayer

Christian Lee (2025 March 16, Sunday, Storyline Church)

Before Jesus begins teaching the Lord's prayer, he warns us against the biggest mistake people make with prayer. Pagans cannot pray like Christians. But Christians continually fall back into praying like pagans. Many Christians these days seem most concerned about protecting our religious liberties from irreligious liberals. But we see here that Jesus' primary concern was not between religious and irreligious but between religious and Christian. This sermon was inspired and adapted from Tim Keller's 1995 sermon "Basis of Prayer: Our Father."

Passage: Matthew 6:6-15 (NIV); Romans 8:15 (ESV); I John 3:1 (NKJV); Luke 11:1-10 (ESV)

Sermon Series: The Lord's Prayer, 1 of 4