Teaching | Calling: The Inward Journey | Discovering Your Identity and Calling E03
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In the journey to discover your identity and calling, a transformation from who you are now to who you are becoming in Christ needs to take place. During that "inward journey," you have to come face-to-face with your sin. In this teaching, John Mark gives insight into how to navigate this journey. First, he walks us through the "layers of sin" and shows us how to address our sins at their roots. Then, he equips us with some tools to help us face our sin, including a short teaching on the Enneagram. And finally, John Mark reminds us that we can't do it on our own: we need the salvation that only Jesus can offer.
Key Scripture Passages: Matthew 4v18-22; Matthew 9v9-13
Resources for this practice:
https://practicingthewayarchives.org/practices/identity-and-calling
The Road Back to You, Suzanne Collins
Invitation to a Journey, Robert Mulholland
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon |
| 0:10.0 | as a part of the Discovering Your Identity and Calling series. |
| 0:14.0 | Turn to Matthew Chapter 4. |
| 0:23.0 | Matthew 4. |
| 0:25.0 | It is great to see you and welcome and wherever you're at with Jesus. |
| 0:31.0 | This is the safe place and we're just really happy you're at with Jesus, this is a safe place |
| 0:32.8 | and we're just really happy you're here. |
| 0:34.6 | But that said, our church is built around this idea |
| 0:37.1 | of practicing the way of Jesus. |
| 0:39.7 | And because of that, every few months, |
| 0:41.5 | we take on a practice from the life and or the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. |
| 0:46.2 | And we're three or four weeks into our fall practice that is discovering our identity and calling. |
| 0:53.4 | And the basic idea, if you missed the last week or two, |
| 0:56.5 | is that our self-awareness, or our lack of self-awareness, |
| 1:01.0 | has a direct bearing on our relationship to God, as well as on our relationship |
| 1:06.2 | to other people, our wife or husband or co-worker, a boss or children or aunt or whoever, |
| 1:12.4 | and as well as on our relationship to our own soul. |
| 1:15.4 | Now this is not a new idea at all. |
| 1:17.9 | In the fourth century, Augustine prayed, |
| 1:20.3 | May I know you, may I know myself |
| 1:24.1 | Thomas a tempest a towering intellect from medieval Western Christianity said this a humble self-knowledge is a sure way to God, |
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