Teaching | Active and Passive Spirituality | Naming Your Stage of Your Apprenticeship E05
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
“The farther we get down the path of the spiritual journey, the more our apprenticeship to Jesus feels less and less active, and more and more passive.”
John Mark continues with our discussion on the stages of apprenticeship, this time talking about active and passive spirituality and its role in our formation. He shows us how to use practice (active) and surrender (passive) to be more formed into the likeness of Jesus in every season of our lives.
Key Scripture Passages: John 21v18; Matthew 6v25-34
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way. |
| 0:06.0 | This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon as a part of the naming your stage in apprenticeship series. |
| 0:14.0 | Yesterday I was sitting with tea out on the deck for that brief window of sunshine in the morning. |
| 0:26.5 | It was wonderful. |
| 0:27.5 | It was warm. I was in a t-shirt, water Avenue coffee in hand, and we were just having a nice chat, |
| 0:32.4 | but we were actually in conversation around some of my wife's health issues. |
| 0:36.5 | Most of you know she has chronic health condition and Lyme disease and had a recent diagnosis from a neurologist that's pretty bad and has to do with the muscles |
| 0:46.0 | in her face and the long-term stuff. |
| 0:48.0 | We don't know, this is not a for sure thing yet. |
| 0:49.0 | We're going to wait for a second and third diagnosis. |
| 0:51.0 | But she was just chatting with me about, |
| 0:54.0 | you know, a few years ago when her health, |
| 0:56.0 | which has been not great for a long time |
| 0:58.2 | but really got a lot worse about three years ago, |
| 1:00.8 | she had this moment of like intense prayer with God, not like daily prayer, like intent, you know what I mean? |
| 1:06.5 | Like intense prayer with God. And where she basically in her own language said, God, I'm up for whatever, |
| 1:12.1 | like if it's cancer, I'll deal with cancer if it's a wheelchair. I'll deal with that just please do not let it be my face |
| 1:18.1 | Anything but my face and now the diagnosis is in and it's her face. |
| 1:24.0 | And we were chatting this morning en route to the morning gathering |
| 1:28.0 | and we were laughing about Theresa Vabalia's line |
| 1:31.0 | about the dark night of the soul, |
| 1:32.0 | which we'll talk about in a few weeks ago, |
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