Service 02: How Do I Serve? - Part 01 (featuring Jonathan Tremaine Thomas)
Rule of Life
Practicing the Way
4.8 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
How can service grow beyond projects and campaigns and into a lifestyle? Join Tyler Staton and Shelbi Shutt as they explore the primary environments and relationships where Jesus invites us to serve, featuring conversations with everyday people in the West, testimonials from real-life practitioners, and an interview with luminary Jonathan Tremaine Thomas.
In this episode’s luminary interview, Tyler and Jonathan Tremaine explore Jesus’ model and invitation to serve in the hidden and familiar places of our lives. Jonathan Tremaine is an activist, pastor, and preacher who founded Civil Righteousness — an organization dedicated to racial justice and reconciliation through Jesus. You can explore more of Jonathan Tremaine’s work at civilrighteousness.org and connect with him @jontremaine.
This podcast accompanies the Service Practice, a four-session experience designed to help you serve in the way of Jesus. Learn more at practicingtheway.org/service.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, my name is Inka Dawson and I'm the host of the John Marcoma Teachings podcast. |
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| 0:26.8 | You're listening to the Rule of Life podcast |
| 0:29.6 | from practicing the way. |
| 0:32.2 | In each season, we explore an ancient practice |
| 0:35.0 | from the way of Jesus |
| 0:36.2 | and its relevance for the modern era. |
| 0:39.7 | This is Season 8, Service. |
| 0:44.5 | Music. Well, welcome to episode two of the Rule of Life podcast where we are talking all about the ancient spiritual practice of service. |
| 1:15.6 | Last episode, we talked all about the foundation and motivation of the practice of service, which is love, loving others by meeting practical needs. |
| 1:25.6 | And the main question that we're going to pivot into today, |
| 1:28.8 | and actually over the course of these next two episodes, is the question of how, how do we serve |
| 1:33.8 | in the way of Jesus? And just to start the conversation, I'd love for you to talk to us about |
| 1:39.3 | how service is like the other practices, and then how is it different from the other practices? |
| 1:46.1 | Services like any other spiritual practice in that we have to just start where we are and just get |
| 1:53.5 | going in the same way that if someone was, you know, saying, I want to begin to pray, but I'm not |
| 1:59.1 | sure how. |
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