How We Change: Community | Practicing the Way Vision Series E7 (Re-release)

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Can we follow Jesus alone? John Mark explores the essential—but often overlooked—role of community in spiritual formation. Drawing from the life of Jesus and the early church, he shows how transformation doesn’t happen in isolation but in the messy, beautiful tension between the ideal of community and its imperfect reality.

Key Scripture Passages: Matthew 4v18-22; Matthew 9v9-13; Acts 2v42-47; Romans 12v15; 1 John 4v20

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the John Mark Horma Teetons podcast.
0:06.6	My name is Yinka Dawson and I'm your host.
0:09.9	Each week we feature Teetons by John Mark or other voices in the formation space, and it's great
0:14.7	to have you with us.
0:16.8	As we continue our conversation about the process of transformation, we come to the next piece of our working theory of change, community.
0:25.0	John Mark illustrates a community, though often messy and imperfect,
0:29.2	is a space where transformation happens.
0:31.9	It exposes our shadow sides, offers healing, fosters joy,
0:36.1	and ultimately helps us become people of love.
0:39.3	Here's John Mark.
0:42.5	We're in a series right now on practicing the way of Jesus.
0:46.0	A lot has changed over the last week, but one thing is not.
0:49.4	We are still very much a church built around the idea of following Jesus.
0:53.9	And for us, that means living into three
0:56.6	goals. Say this out loud with me. One is to be with Jesus. Two, is to become like Jesus. And three,
1:03.8	is to do what he did. So we've been asking this question, how do we change? Because most of us aren't
1:09.0	there now. How are we in the
1:11.6	language of the New Testament transformed? And the short answer is it's not exactly how a lot of
1:16.2	us think. We've been working through our spiritual formation paradigm, which kind of years of
1:20.8	teaching in the making. We covered teaching and practice over the last couple of weeks. If you're
1:25.3	not here, please go back and listen to the podcast.
1:28.6	We're on, I think, week seven.
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