Teaching | How We Change: Unintentional Spiritual Formation | Discovering Your Identity and Calling E04
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 1 April 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
We are all being shaped. The question is, what is shaping you? This week, John Mark challenges us with this question as he unpacks how our beliefs, habits, relationships, and experiences all shape the person that we are. Rather than passively let these influences shape us, we are called, as apprentices of Jesus, to be intentional with our beliefs, habits, relationships, and experiences as we seek to curate our lives to grow in our love for Jesus.
Key Scripture Passages: Ephesians 4v1-24; Galatians 4v19; Proverbs 4v23
Resources for this practice:
https://practicingthewayarchives.org/practices/identity-and-calling
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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 Discovering Your Identity and Calling series. |
| 0:14.0 | Be true to yourself. |
| 0:28.0 | Good advice, bad advice. |
| 0:32.0 | Yes. We hear this all the time, right? |
| 0:35.0 | In a magazine interview with a Hollywood |
| 0:39.6 | slab in the West Hills of LA. |
| 0:41.9 | What advice do you have for the reader? |
| 0:43.5 | You know, be true to yourself. |
| 0:46.0 | Great, that's really helpful. |
| 0:47.6 | What if I don't look like you? |
| 0:48.7 | It's not quite as helpful. |
| 0:51.3 | In the audio book from the self-help guru on your morning commute, you know, 10 tips for whatever. Number three, be true to yourself. |
| 0:59.0 | In the Oprah-esque talk show interview, thinking of a marriage or of a divorce or of a sex change |
| 1:05.8 | or of a whatever, well you know the thing is be true to yourself, pan to the audience, |
| 1:10.9 | head nod everywhere, right? |
| 1:13.7 | This is more than a cliche in our culture. |
| 1:16.0 | It is a mantra, really for American culture in particular. |
| 1:20.6 | But as a follower of Jesus, you know, I have mixed feelings about it. |
| 1:23.0 | On one hand, I love it. |
| 1:24.0 | I mean, it's right in line with this idea of discovering your identity and calling, |
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