A Community of Holiness in a Culture of Moral Relativism | Future Church E4

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

How do we love others in the moral decay of the modern West? John Mark argues that the world needs a community of holiness as the counter-culture to the mainstream. John Mark explores the concept of holiness, a theology of the body, and the practice of fasting as a path to joy in God.

Key Scripture Passage: 1 Corinthians 6v12-20

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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 your Bibles to 1 Corinthians chapter 6 as we continue our teaching series on future church.
0:29.4	Up on the docket for today is a community of holiness and a culture of moral relativism.
0:38.1	And we stand for the reading of scripture. I'm going to see. God we open to you right now.
1:09.0	As we breathe in and we remember that you are closer than the breath.
1:17.0	And we welcome you into the deepest part of our being God.
1:27.0	I invite you church any place in your body or your spirit or your mind where you are closed off to God, where there's a shallowness of breath,
1:49.4	a tightness of chest, a defense mechanism, a wall, an obstruction.
1:57.0	I invite you just to open that to God and his loving presence and healing system.
2:07.0	God wherever we are closed, we just open to you.
2:18.5	We surrender and yield heart wide open. We are your disciples Jesus, you are a master.
2:30.0	More than that in the language of the New Testament and if you yourself Jesus we are your servants and you are a master
2:39.0	and we're happy about that because of your love. So we open to you and yield and surrender and
2:49.4	now as we receive the text that we are about to read.
2:54.6	You see that not just as an excerpt from an ancient Greco-Roman letter,
3:01.6	but as the love and the wisdom of God, plant it like a seed and the soil of our being God and let it grow and bear fruit.
3:10.0	Let us turn us as a church into a tree that is full of flourishing right in the soil of our city.
3:21.4	Come Holy Spirit and do the work.
3:24.0	Silence the voice of the enemy.
3:27.0	Wall off this room, every apartment, living room, home, kitchen table that people are watching from.
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