CNLP 626 | John Mark Comer On The Crisis in Discipleship, Why Weekend Sermons and Services Aren't Resonating Like They Used To, Determining Your Real Motives, and Why He's No Longer Travelling and Speaking
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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In Part 5 of the Church Trends series, John Mark Comer talks about the crisis in discipleship.
John Mark also dives into the stages of spiritual growth, why weekend services and sermons aren't resonating like they used to, and how to determine your real motives. John Mark Comer and Carey discuss what's wrong with today's church services and why they're perhaps not enough, and why John Mark's no longer traveling and speaking.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:03.0 | Part of my underwhelmed with Sunday Services |
| 0:06.0 | is just that I'm, you know, not that far down the spiritual path, |
| 0:10.0 | but I'm not 25 anymore and sitting through a sermon series on whatever is not as |
| 0:16.7 | life-changing for me at this point in my journey as it was at that point in my |
| 0:20.6 | journey I'm a little bit less emotion driven now at this point. |
| 0:23.3 | The problems I'm facing in my, you know, sin that's in my body are much deeper and |
| 0:29.2 | are not solved by information and inspiration for the most part. I need I'm way too messed up for that and it's a much much deeper stuff that it's working that Jesus is working on in me now and and then I think part of it, and this is embarrassing, but there is just the American |
| 0:47.7 | consumer mentality that is the air we breathe. It's like breathing secondhand smoke. |
| 0:53.4 | I can't help but imbibe the consumerism of our culture. |
| 0:57.8 | And in a TED Talk internet-based podcast world, |
| 1:02.2 | you know, unless if your local preacher is John Tyson or, you know, a couple |
| 1:07.9 | of years, you know, not that long ago, Tim Keller, it's pretty hard to not be a little bit |
| 1:12.1 | bored. |
| 1:12.8 | Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast, |
| 1:19.6 | it's Carrie here and I hope our time together today |
| 1:22.2 | helps you thrive in life and leadership. |
| 1:24.0 | Man, this has been a fun series. |
| 1:27.0 | We have been talking Church trends. |
| 1:29.0 | This is episode 5, the final part of our 2024 Church Trend series, and we kind of gone all over the place and today a deep dive into discipleship with the one and only John Mark Comer. |
| 1:41.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by my 2024 Church |
| 1:44.5 | trends. I've got a leader guide that you can get exclusively for your team for free at |
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