Amen, and after all that is precisely how Christ intended for us to use it. The lead up to that prayer in Matthew covers a bunch of stuff that you’ve mentioned about modern prayer practice, most notably the use of public prayer as an advertiser of one’s virtue. We are instructed not to do that.
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