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John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

How would you work differently if you believed your work was essential to your apprenticeship to Jesus? John Mark argues that a subtle religion emerging in our culture is 'work-ism,' where work becomes the primary system of meaning and identity in our lives. In contrast, he proposes the practice of vocation - 're-weaving glory' by doing everything unto the Lord.

Key Scripture Passages: Genesis 1v26-29, 2v8-15

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0:00.0	Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way.
0:05.0	This teaching was originally given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon
0:10.0	as a part of the future church series.
0:13.0	Please turn in your Bibles to Genesis chapter one as we continue our teaching series
0:25.8	Future Church. Up on the docket for today is a community of contribution
0:32.1	in a culture of careerism.
0:39.6	And stand with me for the reading of scripture. We stand to, in the language of the New Testament,
0:47.0	honor God with our body. And to honor what we are about to read is not just an ancient subversive anti-myth, but as scripture.
1:01.0	Genesis chapter 1, verse 26.
1:05.5	Then God said, let us make mankind in our image,
1:10.2	in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky over
1:16.7	the livestock and all the wild animals and over all the creatures that move along the ground. So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he
1:27.4	created them, male and female he created them. God bless them and said to them, be fruitful, an increase in
1:39.2	number, fill the earth and subdue it.
1:43.0	Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky
1:47.0	and over every living creature that moves along the ground.
1:51.0	Turn the page, chapter 2, verse 8.
1:57.0	Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the East in Eden, a Hebrew word meaning delight,
2:02.0	and there he put the man he had for. in Eden, Hebrew word meaning delight.
2:02.7	And there he put the man he had formed.
2:06.0	The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground,
2:09.1	trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food.
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