John Mark Comer on The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, Work, and Sabbath

The Alli Worthington Show

Alli Worthington

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

I'm joined by the brilliant John Mark Comer, one of my all-time favorite authors and teachers. I love his work so much I think I embarrassed him just a little. We'll talk about why I pay my children to read his books, the importance of Sabbath, and what it means to live a spiritually disciplined life in a busy, modern world. In this episode we discuss: 1. Why work isn’t a bad thing. 2. Keeping the Sabbath holy. 3. Practical ways to unhurry life Favorite quotes: 1. The two major areas where we actually follow Jesus and work out our spiritual formation are family or close interpersonal relationships and work. I think the church does a great job of talking about family, marriage, parenting, relationships, community. What’s there a lot less said about, though I think is changing in the past decade or two, is work and how it dovetails into our spirituality and her apprenticeship into Jesus. 2. The garden was never supposed to stay a garden. Adam and Eve weren’t there to just mow the lawn and take care of things and enjoy life. It was actually supposed to spread out and inevitably become a city had no sin had ever interrupted that project. It would become this garden-like city environment where all sorts of human beings live together in love of God from God and for each other. 3. Sabbath is a practice by which we cultivate a spirit of restfulness. It’s not just one day of the week but seven days of the week. 4. The goal is to become the kind of person in whom literally in our body, in our muscle memory, we have become people of rest. In this episode I answer these questions: 1. What do you think of the advice that we should just follow our passion? (50:32) 2. Why do Christians say they love Jesus and still act like horrible people? (56:28) 3. When you’re working with your business coaching clients what habits or beliefs are the ones that make some of them unable to succeed? (1:00:01) Links to great things we discussed: 1. John Mark Comer 2. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry 3. Favella 4. Educated 5. The Current War 6. God of Wonders Hope you loved this episode! Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and slap some stars on a review! :) xo, Alli www.alliworthington.com/podcast/johnmarkcomer

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, hey, this is Allie and welcome to the Allie Worthington show.
0:06.7	It's where we gather, learn, share our stories, and have a great time.
0:10.8	Every week I'll be chatting with a friend who I know, who I like and I respect,
0:15.4	and I want to learn something from.
0:17.3	And after we have that discussion, we are going to have coaching time.
0:20.2	So I'm going to be
0:20.8	answering your questions about life, about faith, and about business.
0:27.1	Welcome to the show today. And with the brilliant John Mark Comer, I have been trying to get him
0:31.1	on the show forever. I'm a huge fan, as you're soon going to hear, I think I actually made him
0:36.9	uncomfortable because I love
0:38.4	his work so much. He's absolutely great. I talk about a few of his different books as well as his
0:44.3	new book. Just had a great time on the show and you are going to love this one. After we talk with
0:49.7	John Mark, I'm sharing the best of coaching sessions through the end of the year while I'm finishing
0:54.5	the manuscript for my next book.
0:56.8	Ooh, getting there.
0:58.2	Getting it done.
0:59.2	We'll see.
0:59.8	It's either brilliant or it's garbage.
1:01.1	I can't tell because I'm in the middle of writing it.
1:02.9	So pray for me.
1:04.9	Here are the best of questions that I'm answering today.
1:07.5	The live question this week is, what do you think of the advice that we
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alli Worthington, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Alli Worthington and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.