It's Time to Dream Again | Future Church E1

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

"This could be our finest moment. This could be the moment not of our death but of our rebirth."

John Mark challenges us to dream again about what the Church can and should be in our cultural moment. He invites us to re-examine our Rule of Life as we think about being a counter-culture amidst the secular mainstream.

Key Scripture Passage: Psalm 80

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0:00.0	Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way.
0:05.0	This teaching was originally given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon
0:10.0	as a part of the future church series. Welcome. I just got back from a kind of midwinter vacation that was one part,
0:28.0	rest to kind of let my soul catch up to my body and a little bit of a
0:32.2	writing break as well to finish up my next book but
0:34.4	was really in large part to pray and prep for the coming season of our life together as
0:40.6	a church today we kick off a new teaching series that we're calling
0:44.2	future church and you know at the beginning of the year actually in pre-gathering
0:49.0	prayer right down here before our time together when we were just waiting on God I felt the spirit speak a very
0:55.6	sinful word to me and that was just that it's time to dream again and I felt like that was
1:00.8	a word for our church as a whole, not necessarily for me.
1:05.7	You know, there is a time to just survive.
1:09.8	I think of that line in Ecclesiasties or that famous poem like for everything there is a time and there's a time to just like get through it and we don't need like an aspirational kick in the arm we just need to like get to bedtime or whatever that's okay and in a time of survival
1:25.4	really the call is to persevere the word that we set before you for our
1:30.4	the last few months last six months of our time together
1:33.1	was James 1.
1:34.3	Let perseverance finish its work
1:37.5	so that you may be mature and complete not lacking anything.
1:41.2	And we persevere our way into maturity. We don't read books or
1:45.0	listen to teachings into maturity. We persevere into maturity and there's a time
1:50.1	for that but we are coming out of it. Spring is on the horizon in more ways than one.
1:56.2	Yesterday my Sabbath walk through Forest Park I saw the first buds on a maple tree and I just felt giddy on the inside.
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