Teaching | The Journey | Discovering Your Identity and Calling E01
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Discovering our identity and calling is one of the key tasks of apprenticeship to Jesus because what we believe about our identity and calling has ramifications for who we become and what we do with our lives. And while the journey of discovery can be scary and difficult, the Scriptures and millennia of Christian tradition show us that it is essential. In this teaching, John Mark lays out the biblical basis for the practice of discovering our identity and calling. Then he explains what this journey is like by breaking down its stages. Finally, he offers resources to help in our journey and encourages us to embrace the process with community and the Holy Spirit.
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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 Discovering Your Identity and Calling series. |
| 0:14.0 | A few nights ago, we had some friends over for dinner. |
| 0:23.0 | And we had a great time, but Jude, my firstborn, who's in the middle school group right now, |
| 0:29.0 | was just a bit off that night. |
| 0:31.0 | Normally, if you know Jude Jude he is charming and intelligent in the life of the party |
| 0:35.8 | which he did not get from me at all. But for whatever reason he was just not himself. |
| 0:41.4 | He was a bit rude and wild that's actually not too far out of character but he's 11 and he's honestly a bit churlish and so our friends went home and we put the littles to sleep and I sat down with Jude kind of the foot of the bed for the father's son talk and just you know |
| 0:57.1 | Started to go in gentle you know because I know I'm an Enagram type one some of you don't know what that means, I know what that means. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm just like father wound waiting to happen, all right? |
| 1:05.8 | So I'm aware of that. |
| 1:07.8 | So I ease in, hey, you know, did you, how is your day today? |
| 1:14.0 | Did anything bad happen at school today? |
| 1:16.7 | And he's in that like pre-teenager phase. |
| 1:19.3 | So like his language devolved a few months ago |
| 1:21.7 | to like yes, no, or a grunt and so no and we have a great |
| 1:25.9 | relationship but it was not obvious at that moment okay are you doing okay |
| 1:31.2 | yes anything you want to talk about? |
| 1:34.0 | Mm. |
| 1:35.0 | Okay? |
| 1:36.0 | So like, if I could just tell something was not right, you know? |
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