Teaching | Origin Story | Gospel of Matthew
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
What can Jesus's origin story tell us about Him? John Mark explores Matthew's story of Jesus's conception and His calling to "save their people from their sins." He invites us to recognize where we need saving, healing, and rescue in our own lives.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 1v18-2v23
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teachings Podcast by practicing the way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was originally given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon |
| 0:10.0 | as a part of the Gospel of Matthew series. |
| 0:13.0 | How many of you have been through? |
| 0:20.0 | How many of you have been through therapy at some point? |
| 0:25.0 | This is a safe place. I'm still in therapy and at this rate will be for a very long time. |
| 0:31.0 | Nothing but love from up here. |
| 0:34.9 | Well done, a lot of you. |
| 0:36.6 | What is one of the first things you talk about in therapy? |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah, the genogram, which is a part of what? Yeah, your family tree. |
| 0:48.0 | You talk about your family of origin, your relationship with your mom, what was she like, what was that interaction like, |
| 0:54.8 | what about with your father, did you have a brother, a sister, where are you in the lineup, |
| 0:59.4 | youngest, middle, God bless them, oldest. |
| 1:03.2 | Where are you and all of that? |
| 1:04.5 | What was your childhood like? |
| 1:05.8 | What kind of socioeconomic background do you come from? |
| 1:09.0 | You talk about all of that. |
| 1:11.0 | Why? Why? Rehash all of that. Why rehash all of that? To get to the bottom of what? Yes. Because mom and dad got frisky quite a while ago. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, yes, you go back to go forward. You go back to go forward because the reality is that the present is shaped by the past. |
| 1:40.0 | Put another way, who you are, how you relate to God and to other people all around you, |
| 1:48.4 | how you think and feel, how you see life in the world, who you are is shaped by where you come from. |
| 1:57.0 | Now this is not a new idea, if anything it's an ancient idea that we lost over time and is just now making a comeback through therapy |
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