Community as Confrontation (ft. Alex Rettman) | Practicing the Way Vision Series E9

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

When we live in community, conflict is inevitable. But how do we handle conflict well? Alex Rettman—former Bridgetown pastor and now Lead Pastor of Saints' Hill Church in Newberg, OR—explores how conflict—when done in love—can be one of the primary ways we move from disillusionment to acceptance in our relationships, encouraging us use conflict to point one another back to Jesus.

Key Scripture Passages: Philippians 2v1–4; Matthew 18v15–17; Romans 8v1

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the John Mark Holmoo Teachings podcast.
0:07.2	My name is Yinka Dawson and I'm your host.
0:09.8	Each week we feature teachings by John Mark or other voices in the formation space,
0:14.2	and it's great to have you with us.
0:16.2	We're continuing to talk about community this week with a teaching by Alex Retman
0:20.3	on conflict and confrontation
0:21.8	in community and how to do it well. Alex now serves as a senior leader of St. Hill Church in
0:28.6	Newburgh and in this talk he argues that doing confrontation well is the way we move from
0:33.7	disillusionment into acceptance. Here's Alex.
0:45.1	Hey, so we have been in this series on community and last week Bethany gave a great talk on sometimes our expectations going into community how they can be met sometimes
0:50.9	and how they cannot be met at other times, how in community you can find
0:55.3	some of your greatest pains because of the depth that you end up loving.
1:00.5	But at the very same time, and on the flip side of that, you can find some of the greatest healing
1:04.7	because of the depth that you end up loving in community.
1:09.7	So we're going to continue in this community series,
1:12.5	and tonight what I want to talk about is confrontation.
1:16.1	Oh, yeah.
1:17.4	It's going to get so real.
1:20.0	Go ahead and turn in your Bibles to Philippians Chapter 2.
1:24.1	If you have your Bibles with you, Philippians Chapter 2,
1:26.4	or if it's on the iPhone, scroll on over to Philippians 2.
1:32.1	If you're new to the scriptures, at the very front of the Bible, there is a table of content.
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