Teaching | First Half, Second Half of Life | Naming Your Stage of Apprenticeship E04
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
As we continue to explore stage theory paradigms, John Mark turns to the paradigm of the two halves of life by drawing on Jesus’s post-resurrection conversation with Peter. John Mark breaks down the common challenges and struggles of each half of life and offers some helpful ideas on how to move through these stages well.
Key Scripture Passages: John 21v18-25
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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 | Please turn your Bibles to John Chapter 21. |
| 0:25.0 | John Chapter 21 as we continue our practice of naming your stage of apprenticeship. |
| 0:35.0 | Recommended reading to go along with this week's teaching in particular. |
| 0:41.0 | Two of my favorites, Sacred Fire by Ronald Rolheiser, do you know about this book? |
| 0:45.8 | This book is in my top ten books, maybe my top five. I read it at least once a year, sometimes |
| 0:50.5 | twice. I think I'm about read through ten or something like that and it's about apprenticeship to Jesus in the middle years of your life. |
| 0:57.0 | So if you're anywhere between the age of say 30 and not quite dead, this is worth your time. |
| 1:04.7 | You interpret that to me and what you want it to. |
| 1:07.2 | This is really in those long middle years of your life, it's all about that. |
| 1:11.4 | I can't say enough. Good about it. I pass it around to all my 30 and 40 something friends and it's like Christian crack or something |
| 1:17.2 | What am I saying? I don't know but it's really good and then more recently |
| 1:21.5 | The Second Mountain by David Brooks, |
| 1:23.6 | who it's not a Christian book, he's a public intellectual, |
| 1:25.7 | he has recently become a follower of Jesus, |
| 1:28.4 | but it is about kind of the subject matter of tonight. |
| 1:30.8 | Can't say enough good about that. To catch you up to speed, the basic |
| 1:35.1 | idea behind our spring practice is called stage theory in academia, and it's an attempt |
| 1:40.0 | to add spiritual cartography, just an attempt to map the journey of apprenticeship to Jesus |
| 1:45.2 | over the arc of a life in order to better kind of plot ourselves on that map and better |
| 1:51.6 | name Jesus invitations in the here and the now. on that Let me just address one question that we feel on a regular basis and it's basically all right how this is fine |
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