A Conversation from the Future with John Mark Comer—Thinker, Author, Pastor

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

While he won’t admit it, John Mark Comer is our generation’s C.S. Lewis—a brilliant mind, an articulate communicator, and a talented writer and teacher. Portland, Oregon, where John Mark calls home, is considered by many to be the future of America. I pick John Mark’s brain about this and other topics, including politics, the church, and deconstruction.

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0:00.0	Totally in. Totally in. Don't worry about this. Dirt is my producer. He writes these things up.
0:05.5	Great. I'm actually more intrigued about, I think your book is the antidote. The Live Load Lies is the antidote to this, which is freaking awesome.
0:17.6	Oh, thanks.
0:18.4	Awesome. That's exactly what it is. I don't know if we're recording right now. It's seriously, dude. It's, oh, thanks. Awesome. That's exactly what it is. And I don't know if we're recording right now.
0:22.6	It's seriously, dude. It's great.
0:24.9	Oh, thanks, man.
0:30.2	Welcome to the aggressive life.
0:36.4	You know, the aggressive life, we want to push you.
0:38.7	We want to push you in a bunch of different ways.
0:40.0	And one of the ways that I want to push you is a way that, oh, what should I say that?
0:46.4	One of the ways I've not wanted to push us all that much on is intellectual ideas.
0:52.3	I've not wanted to push us on our thinking because the aggressive life is
0:57.1	about our doing. It's about our acting. It's not about our thinking. So simply having another
1:02.0	podcast says, ooh, interesting thoughts that I might think about. Ooh, that's not interesting.
1:06.1	Ooh, that's not fascinating. My day job is a pastor. And I just used to be in the slavery of teaching in an
1:13.1	environment where if I didn't say something new that someone hadn't heard, if I didn't define
1:17.8	a Hebrew word or a Greek word in a way that someone hadn't heard or I hadn't dropped some
1:23.8	theological phrase, if I didn't do something that was quote unquote deep, then I wasn't
1:27.9	accepted. So in my early days, I was constantly trying to cater to that crowd. And I've come to a place
1:32.9	where I'm like, nah, not catering to that crowd. If you want new interesting thoughts, go read a phone book.
1:38.0	There's a bunch of names in there that you don't know. But having said that, I want us to be a little
1:43.6	aggressive today on our thinking because our thinking actually informs our actions.
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