Teaching | Practicing the Way | Practicing the Way Vision Series E01
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 5 November 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wanted to have the abundant life of Jesus? In this new series, John Mark outlines the what, how, and why behind Practicing the Way. For the first episode, John Mark outlines the cultural context behind Jesus's identity as a first-century rabbi, and what that means for us as His followers as we practice being with Jesus, becoming like Jesus, and doing what Jesus did.
Key Scripture Passages: Mark 8v34-36; Mark 1v16-20; Mark 2v13-14; Mark 3v13-14; John 15v1-8; Matthew 5-7
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https://practicingthewayarchives.org/practices/practicing-the-way
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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 Practicing the Way vision series. |
| 0:13.0 | Hey, I've been looking forward to this weekend for actually a very long time so if you're new to the |
| 0:24.3 | bridge town story every single fall we do a vision series where we kind of circle the |
| 0:30.0 | wagons and re-enter on what we're all about as a church and we've really been |
| 0:34.7 | looking forward to this fall because we're actually going to lay out a I'm not sure if |
| 0:39.2 | new is the right word but I guess so a new vision for the next season in the life of our church. |
| 0:46.0 | And I feel like it's a vision series, kind of, I don't know, a decade plus in the making, at |
| 0:50.6 | least in my own life. |
| 0:52.3 | Years of learning and unlearning and |
| 0:55.1 | trial on error and working things out as a church and I feel like we have some |
| 0:59.9 | really some stuff to lay on you in particular a few weeks from now that has the |
| 1:05.4 | potential to reshape our church and really has the potential to transform |
| 1:09.4 | your life from the inside out so I just can't wait to get after it. |
| 1:14.8 | To start off, let's talk about Jesus of Nazareth. |
| 1:18.6 | Jesus was a lot of things. |
| 1:20.4 | We know him best as the son of God, but he was also the Messiah or another name for that is the Christ |
| 1:26.8 | A word meaning the long-awaited king of Israel and the world, but if you were a first century Jew |
| 1:33.4 | and you were at synagogue one Sabbath morning |
| 1:36.0 | and Jesus were to show up and to teach that day, |
| 1:39.4 | the odds are that the category you would have put Jesus in is that of a rabbi. |
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