Hello and welcome to the John Malcolm at Teachings podcast. My name is Yinka Dawson and I'm your host.

Each week we feature teachings by John Mark or other teachers in the formation space.

For many of us, the summertime often brings a slower pace, making it a great time for reflection and re-centering.

So each summer we like to take time to review core ideas from the best previous teachings.

This year, we wanted to revisit the Practice in the Way vision series.

John Law gave this series at the beginning of Bridgetown Church's journey with Practice in the Way,

sharing the ideas that would

go on to form the basis of this ministry. In this first teaching, John Mark lays the foundation

of apprenticeship to Jesus, arguing that we must organize our lives around three goals of being

with Jesus, becoming like Jesus, and then doing what Jesus did.

Here's the episode.

Hey, I've been looking forward to this weekend for actually a very long time.

So if you're new to the Bridgetown, a story, every single fall we do a vision series

where we kind of circle the wagons and re-center

on what we're all about as a church. And we've really been looking forward to this fall because

we're actually going to lay out a, I'm not sure if new is the right word, but I guess so,

a new vision for the next season and the life of our church. And I feel like it's a vision series

kind of, I don't know, a decade plus in the making, at least in my own life, years of learning

and unlearning and trial and error and working things out as a church. And I feel like we have

some really, some stuff to lay on you, in particular a few weeks

from now, that has the potential to reshape our church and really has the potential to

transform your life from the inside out.

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