Teaching | Jesus and the Lonely Place | Silence and Solitude E01
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 14 January 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel like your life is too busy, your schedule is too jammed, and your soul is overly hurried? You aren't alone: our culture is constantly pressing us to move at unsustainable speeds. So how do we "unhurry" our souls? Is there a practice from the way of Jesus, a time-tested way of living, that would set us up to thrive right in the middle of all the chaos of modern society? In this teaching, John Mark introduces the practice of Silence and Solitude as the answer to a world filled with distractions. Through the Scriptures, John Mark shows how even Jesus incorporated this into his routine and why this practice is often considered the most essential of them all. He concludes with practical ways to implement silence and solitude while taking into consideration your stage of life and discipleship.
Key Scripture Passages: Matthew 3v13-4v4; Mark 1v35-39; Mark 6v30-46; Luke 5v15-16
Resources for this practice:
practicingthewayarchives.org/practices/silence-solitude
Invitation to Silence and Solitude by Ruth Haley Barton
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 part of the Silence and Solitude Practice. |
| 0:13.0 | We are coming off a three month long vision series on practicing the way of Jesus and now |
| 0:25.2 | we're finally ready to start our first practice. Yes, absolutely how do you feel |
| 0:30.6 | about that? Yeah. |
| 0:32.7 | And the reason for the time lag, if you're type A |
| 0:35.9 | and kind of in a rush like me, was we really wanted, |
| 0:40.7 | as a church, we really wanted to get the why behind the idea of a practice-based |
| 0:45.4 | approach to community and to apprenticeship to Jesus. So if you miss the fall |
| 0:50.7 | series or if you were in and out of town and missed a few of the teachings |
| 0:54.2 | please go back and listen to the podcast just to make sure that we're all on the same |
| 0:58.1 | page as a church. That said before we jump into our first practice of |
| 1:02.2 | silence and solitude, recommended reading is |
| 1:04.8 | this book, Invitation to Silence and Solitude by Ruth Haley Barton. |
| 1:08.5 | It is a short, easy, but fantastic read. |
| 1:12.0 | If you're a reader and you want extra credit or something with |
| 1:14.7 | God I don't think that's a thing but value added this is a great place to start and |
| 1:19.9 | then on practice in general or what are usually called the spiritual disciplines in general, |
| 1:25.0 | our two favorite reads are The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard. |
| 1:29.0 | We just hacked this book all the time. |
| 1:31.0 | And then Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster which I think |
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