Be With Jesus | Practicing the Way Vision Series E2 (Re-release)

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

How do we cultivate a deep relationship with God? Using key scriptures and church history examples to give a tangible vision of how to “practice the presence of God,” John Mark shows that through abiding, we have access to the peace and joy that Jesus promised as we adopt the spiritual disciplines that Jesus exemplified.

Key Scripture Passages: John 1v35-49; John 14v16-15v8; Galatians 5v13-26

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the John Mark Homo Teachings podcast.
0:07.0	My name is Inka Dawson and I'm your host.
0:10.0	Each week we feature teachings by John Mark or others talking about the idea of spiritual formation.
0:16.0	Today, we continue in our vision series with the first of our three goals of an apprentice,
0:22.1	to be with our rabbi, Jesus.
0:25.5	John Mark digs into Jesus' invitation to come and be with him,
0:30.0	and what that looks like for us as apprentices in the 21st century.
0:34.7	Here's John Mark.
0:38.3	Hi, everybody. Good evening. Hey, turning your Bibles to John Chapter 1. If you missed last
0:46.0	weekend, please go back and listen to the podcast. We kicked off a vision series that we're
0:49.7	calling Practicing the Way. The salient idea is that the invitation of Jesus was to become a Talmudim.
0:57.1	That's a Hebrew word meaning disciple or an even better translation is apprentice. And to be an
1:02.4	apprentice of Jesus is to order your life around three goals. The first goal is to be with Jesus.
1:09.4	The second is to become like Jesus. And the third is to do what he did.
1:14.1	So over the next two weeks, I want to go deeper on each one of these goals and put a little
1:18.5	flesh and bone on each idea.
1:21.2	So this week we'll talk about be with Jesus, next week we'll talk about become like Jesus,
1:25.5	and so on.
1:26.4	Does that sound like an okay map forward?
1:29.4	Yes? Okay, great. To start things off, John chapter one, let's read from verse 35. The next day, John was there, that's John the baptizer, again with two of his Talmudim or disciples.
1:42.8	When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, look, the Lamb of God.
1:46.0	I love this. When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus. Poor John.
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