Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way.

This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon as a part of the

unhurrying with the Rule of Life series.

This is a little bit odd, but they say the best way to die is actually by cancer.

Or by another kind of disease that has a timeline attached to it.

I. You have six months to live, or you have nine months to live.

Does that sound a little bit counterintuitive to you?

It does to me, all the research says that, but it does to me, I would think they would say,

well, in one fell swoop motorcycle accident, beautiful fall day, highway one, last thought was Cliff or whatever you know that's how I would want to go for

one which is why my wife no longer lets me drive a motorcycle but and with all due respect to the cycle.

But, and with all due respect to the tragedy of death or a motorcycle accident,

the reality is that all sorts of doctors argue that no, the best way to go is when you know I'm dying and you

have a few months or you have a set time for closure in your life to make things

right to call up that old friend or that estranged

relationship and to tie off your relationships and to say goodbye. Those same

doctors also tell us, based on observation and research as well that often

it's in those last conversations that kind of final parting goodbye where people

often you know offer what we call famous last words where people

offer something to say as a final kind of farewell and anthem for what life is all about.

On that note, the passage that we are about to read from John 15 is that from Jesus of

Nazareth.

It's actually part of what scholars called the upper room discourse,

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