Teaching | The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry | Unhurrying With a Rule of Life E01
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
“Most people are just too busy to live an emotionally healthy and spiritually rich life.”
We live in an age of chronic distraction and business. John Mark talks about hurry as the great enemy of our spiritual life. He proposes that the solution to “hurry sickness” is not more time, but rather become people of love through being intentional with our own “rule of life.”
Key Scripture Passage: Luke 10v25-37
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way. |
| 0:06.0 | This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon as a part of the |
| 0:10.8 | unhurrying with the Rule of Life series. Dallas Willard once called Hurry the great enemy of spiritual life in our day and said |
| 0:27.1 | quote you must ruthlessly eliminate Hurry from your life he said that to a mentee of his by the name of John Ortberg. |
| 0:36.0 | If you're not familiar with John, he's one of my all-time favorite pastors and writers from a generation ahead of me. |
| 0:42.0 | I would not call him a mentor. |
| 0:43.4 | He's a little bit out of my league, |
| 0:45.3 | but we do have lunch two or three times a year. |
| 0:47.0 | I was actually just with him a few days ago on Monday. |
| 0:50.4 | And John is kind of, you have those people in your life |
| 0:52.4 | are like, this is who I want to be when I grow up., you have those people in your life are like, |
| 0:52.8 | this is who I want to be when I grow up. |
| 0:54.5 | Do you have anybody like that? |
| 0:55.9 | If not, you should. |
| 0:56.9 | John is that for me. |
| 0:58.4 | And when John first told me that story of what |
| 1:00.8 | Willard said to him, I had these two equal and opposite reactions. |
| 1:05.0 | On one hand, my mind, in all honestly said, that's ridiculous. |
| 1:08.0 | Hurry? Like, Hurry is the great enemy of like the great Satan or something of life in the Western world. |
| 1:16.0 | That's just not what I would have put language to. |
| 1:18.4 | I mean, our city, as most of you know, was recently named the least religious city in America. |
| 1:22.9 | And if you were to ask me prior to hearing that story, |
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