Teaching | Generational Blessing | Dealing With Your Past E02
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 4 February 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Our families of origin and past experiences impact every human, both for bad and for good. In this teaching, John Mark explores the nature of blessing throughout the Bible and God's plan to bring blessing to the whole world, while showing how blessings are passed from one generation to the next. Because of the influence that we can have and our authority to bless, John Mark invites us to partner with God's plan by blessing our children, our friends, and our circumstances as a way to pass on good to the next generation.
Key Scripture Passages: Genesis 12v1-3; Genesis 25v7; Genesis 26v23-25; Genesis 27v1-40; Genesis 28v10-15; Genesis 48v1-20; Genesis 2v24; Mark 10v13-16
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https://practicingthewayarchives.org/practices/dealing-with-your-past
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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 |
| 0:11.0 | dealing with your past series. |
| 0:13.0 | We are wrapping up our series. |
| 0:20.0 | We are wrapping up our series and with it our practice on dealing with your past and the basic idea is that who we are |
| 0:30.3 | is shaped by where we come from. That your life today is the cumulative |
| 0:36.3 | effect of your family of origin, the culture that you or I were born into, key |
| 0:41.6 | events in our childhood or adolescence and so on. |
| 0:45.0 | And if we're brutally honest, when we think about the church, and I grew up in the church, |
| 0:48.8 | I have an insider view, if we're brutally honest, there are a lot of people in the church who are stuck in |
| 0:55.3 | their growth and maturity and their emotional and spiritual development stuck in |
| 1:01.4 | their transformation to reach their full potential in apprenticeship to Jesus. |
| 1:07.0 | And people are stuck in patterns that are unhealthy if not toxic and for sure out of line with the way of Jesus but for |
| 1:14.7 | some reason a lot of people just can't get unstuck anybody been there? |
| 1:18.8 | Some of you are like yep I've been there since 1984. Well, Tann. Why is that? Why do we get stuck? |
| 1:26.8 | Well, I think one of the reasons is because to go forward, first we have to go back. A few days ago I read this line from CS Lewis. A sum can be put right |
| 1:36.6 | but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point never from simply going on. Now nowhere |
| 1:46.9 | is this more true than in our family of origin which we have defined as your |
| 1:51.8 | entire extended family going back three to four generations. |
| 1:55.8 | Dr. Monica McGoldrich, a psychologist and specialist on the gennagram and a really boring book on it that I read |
| 2:03.0 | writes this. |
| 2:03.7 | Here's the best highlight of 400 pages, all right? |
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