Teaching | Case Study: Rachel and Leah | Naming Your Stage of Apprenticeship E08
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Can pain make us more loving? Continuing our discussion of stage theory, John Mark uses the story of Leah and Rachel in Genesis to show how our responses to the pain in our lives can either lead us closer to God and acceptance of our circumstances, or towards bitterness and pain.
Key Scripture Passages: Gen 29v15-35; Gen 30v1-24; Gen 35v16-20
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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 | Hi everybody, please turn in your vibles to Genesis 29. |
| 0:24.0 | Just a reminder that we do have recommended reading to go along with our teaching and practice. |
| 0:31.0 | I am tomorrow off to the Oregon coast, and you're anything like me you bring along a pile of books or at least a book maybe I say that in faith over your life |
| 0:40.4 | Some great recommended reading on that next week, but today we come to the end of our practice. |
| 0:48.0 | The basic idea for the last month or two has been around this concept of stage theory, which is an attempt at spiritual cartography, an attempt to map out the journey of apprenticeship to Jesus over a lifetime. |
| 1:01.0 | At the beginning of our practice, we said that stage theory is a synthesis of |
| 1:05.0 | biblical theology, church tradition, and the best of the human sciences, and particular |
| 1:10.5 | psychology from a Jesus perspective. |
| 1:12.9 | Due to that, our teaching has been a little heavier |
| 1:16.0 | on the inner dynamics of the soul |
| 1:17.9 | than on biblical theology. |
| 1:19.4 | And the main reason is not because we don't adore the Bible, |
| 1:22.2 | but because the writers of the Bible teach stage theory |
| 1:25.0 | not with an academic essay or an infographic |
| 1:29.0 | with a linear timeline on a slide, |
| 1:31.0 | but in the form of biography. They just tell the stories of men and |
| 1:35.6 | women who follow God over a lifetime and expect you and me the reader to pay close |
| 1:41.0 | attention and notice the patterns of the living God's work with and in the human soul from birth to death. |
| 1:49.5 | So we thought it would be fun to end with a case study from the Bible. Not only that, but I, maybe |
| 1:56.0 | this is the spirit of God in me, I think it is, this was my morning devotion about a month ago |
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