Stop, Rest, Delight, Worship | Sabbath E4 (Revamped)

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

How do we sabbath well? John Mark highlights four common words associated with the word “shabbat”: stop, rest, delight, and worship, showing us how these four words give us clues on how to best open ourselves up to the life God offers us through this practice.

Key Scripture Passages: Mark 2v23-28; Mark 3v1-6

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0:00.0	Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast. I'm Strawn Coleman, your host and part of the teaching team here at practicing the way.
0:12.0	Each week on the show here we share a teaching from
0:14.8	John Mark or other trusted voices in the formation space and it's great to have you
0:20.0	with us. Today John Mark reflects on the central themes of Sabbath and shares
0:26.7	a vision for a life of pleasure, deep rest and meaningful change in God through this restorative practice.
0:34.8	As you listen, you may like to ask,
0:37.0	what's one restful or pleasure stacking practice
0:40.2	I can add to my current Sabbath. Here's John Mack.
0:44.0	Mark chapter 2 if you have a Bible.
0:48.0	Mark chapter 2 as we near the end of our series and practice on the Sabbath.
0:54.2	You know, normally if you've been around,
0:56.0	we would be done with our winter practice by now.
0:58.9	But, you know, if you've been around the last few months,
1:00.9	you get the gist of Sabbath at least in your mind.
1:03.6	Now all you really need to do is practice it and let it sink into kind of the fabric of your
1:08.8	body.
1:09.8	But I was reading recently Adam Grant and his little book,
1:12.4	Originals, where he has a summary of all the recent data around communication theory and he just makes the point that most leaders and organizations undercommunicate by a margin of 10.
1:23.0	Meaning, myself and our teaching team,
1:25.0	we teach on something five times,
1:27.0	like in order for it to sink into our community,
1:30.0	we actually need to teach on it 50 times.
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