Teaching | Generational Sin | Dealing With Your Past E01
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 28 January 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Our family of origin and past experiences shape our present. And past hurt and trauma don't go away on their own. They need to be dealt with, or these hurts and traumas will emerge in unhealthy ways as we try to cope with our pain. So how do we deal with our past so that we can move forward in our apprenticeship to Jesus? In this teaching, John Mark shows us why it is important to deal with our past in our discipleship to Jesus. After discussing common objections to dealing with your past, he takes us through the Bible and shows how sins get passed from one generation to the next. He finishes this teaching by giving practical tips on how to engage these topics in community and begin your journey to healing and freedom.
Key Scripture Passages: Genesis 12v1-20; Genesis 20v1-18; Genesis 26v1-11; Genesis 27v18-20; Genesis 37v2-4; Genesis 37v31-35; Exodus 34v6-7; Mark 5v24-34
Resources for this practice:
https://practicingthewayarchives.org/practices/dealing-with-your-past
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 dealing with your past series. |
| 0:13.0 | Hey everybody, |
| 0:20.0 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:21.0 | Good, there you are. Good evening. The five was sleepy, but you are awake. |
| 0:28.2 | Well, well done. Hey, it's great to see you if you're new or visiting. My name's John Mark and I'm one |
| 0:33.8 | the elders here at Bridgetown Church. It's really it feels weird to say as a |
| 0:38.1 | young guy, but some of you are really young and I am you're like you are an elder. |
| 0:42.4 | Well okay. really young and I am you're like you are an elder well okay it's great to see you and |
| 0:46.3 | if you're over the age of 30 may your tribe increase we just want you yeah may your tribe increase. But welcome, great to have you. |
| 0:54.5 | Please turn in your Bibles to Genesis chapter 12. |
| 1:00.7 | Our church, as Gerald said before, is built around this idea of practicing the way of Jesus together in Portland. |
| 1:07.0 | So every two months we take on a practice from the life and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth. |
| 1:14.0 | And we teach on it here on a Sunday, |
| 1:16.2 | and then we go work it out in our Bridgetown community. |
| 1:20.4 | We just wrapped up the practice of silence and solitude and before we move on I just wanted to say one quick thing |
| 1:26.0 | If you've not already done this please in the next few days or over the next week |
| 1:31.0 | Sit down with your journal or your calendar open and make a plan to |
| 1:36.5 | continue that practice as you move forward. |
| 1:41.2 | We really believe that Simons in Solitude, it's the most hard, it's the most difficult |
| 1:45.4 | for a lot of people, but it's also the most important of all the practices of Jesus, in part |
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