First15 Conversations: John Mark Comer on Politics
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🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Today on the First15 Podcast we are beginning a multi-week series on finding peace in the political season. This is one of the most divisive political times we’ve ever seen, and so we want to have honest and open conversations abound how we can walk in peace with God and others as we journey through it.
To kick off this series, we’re having a conversation with John Mark Comer. He’s the pastor of Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon, and the author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. John Mark offers so much wisdom in this conversation.
We discuss things like...
-Our increasing need for deep community
-The difference between a theological issue and a political issue
-How not all political issues are weighted equally
-How to have a healthy engagement with news and social media
To get John Mark's book, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, CLICK HERE
To access Bridgetown Church's resources around practicing the way of Jesus, CLICK HERE
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the first of team podcast, we're beginning a multi-week series on finding |
| 0:09.6 | peace in the political season. This is one of the most divisive political times we've ever |
| 0:15.6 | seen and so we want to have honest and open conversations about how we can walk in |
| 0:21.0 | health and peace with God as we journey through it. So to kick off |
| 0:25.2 | this series we're having a conversation with pastor and author John Mark Comer |
| 0:29.8 | who leads Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon. |
| 0:33.0 | John Mark offers so much wisdom on the subject. |
| 0:35.8 | I can't wait for you to hear it. |
| 0:37.8 | So let's dive in. Well, John Mark, thanks so much for making space in the midst of all of the craziness to have a conversation with Josh and I have been like so excited to have this time with you. |
| 0:54.8 | So thanks so much for jumping in with us. |
| 0:57.4 | Oh no, I'm happy to chat, happy to come along. |
| 1:00.6 | Well first, I know that not only is so much going on in our world but specifically I feel like I constantly hear from friends but in the news about things that are going on in Portland this year. |
| 1:10.0 | Knowing that you're based there and so before we jump into any sort of conversation |
| 1:14.4 | like how are you doing how is the church doing there's wildfires I know happening now |
| 1:19.4 | not to mention all the craziness with the pandemic and social unrest and all those things so how are you doing how the family doing are things normalizing in the city at all if we even know what a sense of normal is anymore love to just check in with you guys. Yeah I mean it's thank you that's |
| 1:35.2 | very gracious. It has been the most difficult year of my leadership bar none, you know, the cascade effect of |
| 1:45.2 | COVID-19 into the economic fallout that hit our city with so many in the restaurant |
| 1:50.9 | industry into you know obviously the historic tipping |
| 1:55.0 | point around racial injustice in our country into our city becoming kind of both the site of a hundred and plus days of protests, most of which |
| 2:08.5 | turned into riots as well as becoming the epicenter of kind of political theater between President Trump and |
| 2:14.8 | left leaning news organizations and much of it really was political theater into |
| 2:21.1 | wildfires the worst in a generation. |
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