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What all Christians Should Memorize John 3:16, The Lord's Prayer, The Ten Commandments, and The Nicene Creed (or The Apostles' Creed) |
What All Christians Believe in Common What Our Lay Monks Should Memorize
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Many Church communions, including historic Protestant Denominations, require or recommend memorizing most or all. The versions of these texts that we memorize are the ones shown. If your Church uses a different version, you will want to use that, instead. Texts vary in part because of the different translations that have been made into English over many centuries. Or you may prefer a particular Bible Version to memorize from. _____________________________________________________________
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. See: John 3:16 - Key Verse of the Bible. Many Evangelical Christians memorize this verse by the age of three to five years old. It is found in ancient liturgies, including the Anglican Liturgy, and the Eastern Orthodox "Divine Liturgy of John Chrysostom". _____________________________________________________________
Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on Earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, forever and ever. Amen.
(The Lord's Prayer should be prayed daily.) _____________________________________________________________ I am the LORD thy God. Thou shall have no other gods before me. Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image. Thou shall not bow down to them, nor serve them. Thou shall not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land. Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not bear false witness. Thou shall not covet anything that is thy neighbor's. (Excerpted from Exodus 20:1-17)Nine of The Ten Commandments, with the exception being the Commandment regarding the Sabbath (the seventh day of the week, Saturday), are re-stated in the New Testament. We have posted these verses on our webpage: The Ten Commandments: Different Versions. See also: The Ten Commandments: Complete Texts. The New Testament teaching concerning observing or not observing certain days is: Who are you that judges another man's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Yes, he shall be held up: for God is able to make him stand. One man esteems one day above another: another esteems every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regards the day, regards it unto the Lord; and he that regards not the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives God thanks. -Romans 14:4-6 Many Christian teachers hold that the principle of one day of rest in seven as expressed in the Fourth Commandment is a still valid, if not required, precept. The New Testament refers to Sunday as The Lord's Day. Sunday being the day Christ rose from the dead, it is a weekly celebration of His Resurrection. A sort of weekly mini-Easter. "And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them." -Acts 20:7 "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day." -Revelation 1:10 _____________________________________________________________
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all ages; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made. Who, for us all for our salvation, came down from Heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into Heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end. And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets. And I believe in one holy universal and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen. The Nicene Creed should be recited daily. Some historic Protestant churches require or recommend memorizing the Apostle's Creed in its place. Some Churches memorize both. You will want to follow your own Church's practice in this matter. The Nicene Creed is the only Creed accepted in common by Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholics, and Protestants. Accepted as stating correct essential basic Christian doctrine even by those Protestants that reject all Creeds on principle. If you are a Christian who rejects all Creeds on principle, an alternative would be to memorize the actual Scriptures that the Nicene Creed is based upon, and review those daily (see: Nicene Creed: Scripture Basis). ____________________________________________________________ See Also: ____________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2011 S.G.P. All rights reserved. Daily Prayer: Praying the Hours PRAYER Category
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