Community 01: Rediscovering Jesus’ Vision for Family (featuring Andy Crouch)

Rule of Life

Practicing the Way

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

How can we cultivate the deep relationships Jesus invites us toward in an age of isolation, transience, and superficiality? Join John Mark Comer and Shelbi Shutt as they explore the topic of kinship groups, featuring conversations with everyday people in the West, testimonials from real-life practitioners, and an interview with luminary Andy Crouch.

In this episode’s luminary interview, John Mark and Andy explore the evolution of radically familial relationships in the Early Church community and the devolution of community in the West. Andy is a partner for theology and culture at Praxis, and author The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World. You can explore more of his work at andy-crouch.com and connect with him @ahcpix.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Rule of Life podcast from Practicing the Way.
0:05.0	In each season, we explore an ancient practice from the way of Jesus and its relevance for the modern era.
0:11.0	This is Season 7, Community. Hi, friends, welcome to episode one of the community series of the Role of Life podcast. My name is
0:41.5	Shelby. I'm going to be your host and your guide through this season, and I'm joined by John
0:45.4	Mark. It's such a joy to be with you today. How are you? Same to you, Shelby. Very happy that
0:50.5	you are hosting this season and you are wise beyond your years. For our listeners,
0:56.3	tell us a little bit about where you come from, where you live, what brings you to this
1:00.6	conversation. Yeah, I'm originally from Louisville, Kentucky. I've spent the last 10 years in
1:06.6	full-time pastoral ministry. First seven of those got to focus on spiritual formation and the
1:12.1	lives of young people. And then just recently moved to New York City. So I'm in the throes of
1:17.0	Which is kind of like Kentucky. Yeah, exactly. Small, quiet. Yeah, exactly. Wendell Berry is just
1:22.8	wandering around, quoting poetry at the trees. Yeah, so we're adjusting to life in New York City and life looks like full-time speaking and writing.
1:32.3	So yeah, it's a little bit about me.
1:34.3	Well, very happy to be with you.
1:36.3	Thank you for hosting.
1:37.3	Oh, of course.
1:38.3	Well, you know, we're going to be covering lots of really incredible topics over the course of this season.
1:43.3	These are topics that ended up on the cutting room floor or that we're saying,
1:47.0	we need to double down and kind of focus on these.
1:49.0	And so we're going to be hitting topics like fictive kinship groups,
1:53.0	this kind of radical idea of what do we really mean by community?
1:57.0	Yeah, what does the New Testament mean by family?
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