Teaching | Neighboring | Eating and Drinking E02
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
What if, when Jesus said love your neighbor as yourself, he meant your actual neighbor? John Mark teaches on Jesus's command to love our neighbors as ourselves and the parable of the Good Samaritan. Then he explains the history of hospitality and finishes by walking through exercises to help us begin our journey with this practice.
Key Scripture Passages: Luke 10v25-37
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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 eating and drinking practice. |
| 0:13.0 | Luke chapter 10, if you have a Bible, |
| 0:20.0 | Luke chapter 10, if you have a Bible, Luke chapter, Look, |
| 0:25.0 | chapter 10, well a ton of love to all of you and a warm welcome. |
| 0:30.0 | Last week we kicked off a new practice on eating and drinking, |
| 0:33.6 | or what one writer calls radically ordinary hospitality. |
| 0:38.4 | I love that. |
| 0:39.7 | If you were not here, please go back and listen to the podcast we kind of laid all the |
| 0:44.5 | groundwork so you really need to make sure you're in on that conversation and now we |
| 0:48.6 | are ready to move on holy spirit come I can't remember a time in my on Holy Spirit Come. |
| 0:58.0 | I can't remember a time in my three decades when we were this divided as a nation |
| 1:04.0 | Progressive and conservative Democrat and Republican, black and white, LGBTQ and straight, urban and rural, rich and poor, |
| 1:08.0 | West Coast and East Coast, and on down the list. |
| 1:11.4 | Is there a practice from the way of Jesus, from his life and his teachings, |
| 1:17.0 | to engender healing for our polarized and angry and over-the-top anxious society. |
| 1:25.8 | A practice to tear down the wall between us and them, |
| 1:29.7 | what the writers of the New Testament call |
| 1:31.0 | the wall of hostility |
| 1:33.4 | between our enemy and to turn our enemy |
| 1:35.5 | into our friend and our stranger into our brother or our sister. |
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