Teaching | One of Jesus' Most Radical Ideas: Family | Community E02
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Jesus intended his followers to become a family-like community. John Mark talks about how this idea of family was radical not only for first-century Jews, but also why it’s just as radical for us today. Through it, he offers advice on how to build relational skills to bless and love our communities well.
Key Scripture Passage: Mark 3v31-35
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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 Bridgown Church in Portland, Oregon as a part of the community practice. |
| 0:13.0 | Mark chapter 3 to kick things. |
| 0:20.0 | Mark chapter 3 to kick things off from Jesus of Nazareth. |
| 0:26.0 | Verse 31. |
| 0:32.0 | Then Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. |
| 0:37.0 | Standing outside, Jesus is in a house, they sent someone in to call him. |
| 0:42.0 | Now a crowd was sitting around him and they told him, |
| 0:44.5 | hey, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you. |
| 0:48.0 | Who are my mother and my brothers? |
| 0:51.0 | He asked. |
| 0:52.0 | Now that was a rhetorical question in the first century as it is today. |
| 0:55.4 | Your mom is Mary, your brothers are James, and Jude. |
| 0:59.0 | But then he looked around at those seated in a circle around him which would have been the inner ring of |
| 1:04.9 | his apprentices and he said here here are my mother and my brothers whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother. |
| 1:19.0 | Notice that for Jesus, his community of apprentices is his family. |
| 1:26.4 | What does Jesus call God? |
| 1:28.6 | What's the number one moniker Jesus has for God? |
| 1:31.9 | The Father, and what does Jesus call his apprentices? |
| 1:35.0 | Brothers and sisters. In Greek it's one word Adelfoi and it's used not only by Jesus |
| 1:41.0 | but by every single one of the writers of the New Testament |
| 1:44.4 | as the dominant moniker for what you and I are. In fact, it's used |
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