A Community of Tight-knit Loving Relationships in a Culture of Individualism and Tribalism | Future Church E2

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

How do we cultivate deep community? John Mark explores how the practice of community fits into our cultural moment of the loneliness of tribalism and individualism. He challenges us to press into community, even in pain, wounding, and trauma, since it is in community that we will ultimately find our healing.

Key Scripture Passage: Romans 12

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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. Please turn in your Bibles to Romans chapter 12.
0:25.0	Romans chapter 12.
0:28.0	Last week we started a new series called Future Church.
0:32.0	It's time to dream again about the future of our church and our city.
0:37.0	As we all know, we are facing a whole new array of challenges and of intensity to the challenges from before, how do we reframe
0:46.2	our cultural moment from anxiety to possibility?
0:50.8	Our aim each week over the next month or two is to take an in-depth look at one of the challenges that we are facing.
0:57.0	Been dreamed for a few minutes about the kind of church, the kind of community as followers of Jesus that we want to grow and mature
1:04.1	into as an alternative society in Anabaptist language.
1:07.6	How do we stand in sharp relief to our day?
1:11.1	And then we want to take a few minutes to kind of review and revisit a practice or a spiritual
1:15.1	discipline from our rule of life to index to kind of move from idea and theory to praxis and reality to index us away from the anxiety and toward the possibility.
1:27.6	Up on the docket for this morning is a community of tight-knit loving relationships and a culture of individualism and
1:36.0	tribalism. On that note, Romans 12 in just a few minutes. Spirit of God, we just welcome your presence and your peace. Let all of us, let me Let me, all who are watching online, all who are in the basement this morning,
2:00.0	attend to your loving voice.
2:08.0	Let us live from a posture of
2:11.0	sitting at your feet and listening to your word.
2:17.3	Come Holy Spirit. Amen.
2:28.0	I just read that article that's going around in Forbes on the death of a city with a photograph of downtown Portland right across the front.
2:37.0	Listen to the opening line, how long does it take for a city to die?
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