“We say ‘Our’ because of the astounding recognition that this God, the one who created the universe and flung the planets into their courses, the great God of heaven and earth, has willed to become our God. Before we reached out to God, God reached out to us and claimed us, promised to be our God, promised to make us God’s people. Thus, not because of what we are or what we have done, but rather because of what God in Jesus Christ has done, we are privileged to say, ‘Our Father'” (William H. Willimon & Stanley Hauerwas, Lord, Teach Us: The Lord’s Prayer and the Christian Life, 25).