Teaching | How We Change: Teaching and Practice | Practicing the Way Vision Series E05
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
How do we transform our lives to be like Jesus? In this mini-series, How We Change, John Mark lays out how transformation into the image of Jesus takes place: through teaching, practice, community, and the Holy Spirit. This first teaching focuses on teaching and practice. John Mark shows that teaching is meant to counter the stories we believe about our lives. Practice, on the other hand, is to counter our habits. And together, they recalibrate the loves of our hearts towards God.
Key Scripture Passages: Mark 1v14-15; Matthew 7v24-27; Romans 12v1-3; 2 Corinthians 2v16; 2 Corinthians 10v5; Colossians 3v3; Philippians 3v5
Resources for this practice:
https://practicingthewayarchives.org/practices/practicing-the-way
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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 Practicing the Way vision series. Please turn your Bibles to the Gospel of Mark chapter 1 and then we'll get there in just a couple of minutes. |
| 0:28.0 | I was at Powell's a few days ago for my weekly book run and I was struck again by the explosion in self-help |
| 0:36.8 | literature over the last I don't know two decades or so here's a few titles just |
| 0:42.4 | off like the shelf right when you walk in the door. |
| 0:45.0 | Designing your life how to build a well-lived and joyful life. |
| 0:50.0 | Beautiful you, a daily guide to radical self-acceptance, |
| 0:54.2 | super better, the power of living gamefully. |
| 0:57.8 | And then here's my personal favorite. |
| 0:59.4 | The universe has your back, transform fear to faith. It's always nice to know that the |
| 1:04.4 | universe has my back. I just feel so much better now. You know it's funny for all |
| 1:10.4 | the talk about secularization in the West and in particular in a city like Portland, |
| 1:15.0 | I feel like we're more religious than ever before. |
| 1:19.0 | But instead of church, it looks like a yoga studio, instead of worship, it looks like a yoga studio instead of worship it looks like super soul |
| 1:24.5 | Sundays with Oprah instead of a teaching it looks like a podcast or a TED Talk |
| 1:29.2 | instead of a pastor it looks like a therapist instead of a community it looks like a gym |
| 1:33.2 | membership or a running club instead of a Bible study it looks like a book reading |
| 1:37.4 | group instead of a retreat it looks like a motivational seminar instead of |
| 1:41.4 | silence and solitude and prayer it looks like |
| 1:43.5 | mindfulness I think we say that we in Portland are spiritual but not |
| 1:48.4 | religious I think that's absolutely ridiculous I think we just don't want to be |
| 1:52.1 | tied down to any one religion. We're more religious than ever before. It's all alive and well why? Because even in the secular age and even in a society that because it no longer believes in original sin has to blame shift all of the problems and issues in the world onto something external and in doing so onto somebody else. |
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