A Community of Peacemakers in a Culture of Political Polarization | Future Church E6
John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
What if the way forward in our political moment isn’t sweeping reform, but a meal around the table? As much of the world becomes more divided than ever, John Mark challenges us to become peacemakers by demonstrating God's love through the practice of hospitality.
Key Scripture Passages: Mark 2v13-17, Mark 3v13-19, Romans 12v13, 1 Peter 4v8-9, Hebrews 13v1-2
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | Please turn your Bibles to Mark Chapter 2 as we continue our teaching series Future Church. |
| 0:28.3 | We left off last week with a community of peace in a culture of outrage and fear. |
| 0:34.6 | Today the plan is to continue kind of on a very similar theme |
| 0:38.6 | with a community of peacemakers |
| 0:41.6 | and a culture of political polarization. |
| 0:47.8 | Who did you lose last year? |
| 1:00.8 | I don't mean to death or to disease. I mean who did you lose to politics? Who did you lose? Who did you lose? A friend, a college roommate, a family member, an aunt and uncle, a parent, a sibling, a neighbor, a coworker, that you are no longer in relationship with or you're crosswise |
| 1:18.8 | with now and there is a palpable cut it with a knife tension whenever you are together. I'm still |
| 1:26.0 | grieving people that we lost as a church over the last year 100% due to politics |
| 1:32.0 | because we as a community were too far to 100% due to politics. |
| 1:33.0 | Because we as a community were too far to the right or too far to the left |
| 1:36.0 | or not far enough to the right or not far enough to the left, |
| 1:39.0 | or too loud or too quiet on this or that or the other, |
| 1:42.0 | we lost a lot of people from our community. |
| 1:45.0 | I don't have a number but I think a fair bit and that is very sad. |
| 1:51.2 | Sociologists tell us that this phenomenon is not unique to Bridgetown, that our nation is more |
| 1:57.2 | divided than it's been since the Civil War. They now have that as a statistical fact. |
| 2:03.0 | Our nation was built on the idea of E. Pluribus unum, |
| 2:06.0 | or out of many one, but lately, as somebody said recently, |
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