Teaching | The Three Ways | Naming Your Stage of Apprenticeship E01
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Do you feel stuck in your apprenticeship to Jesus? Drawing from the wisdom of followers of Jesus throughout church history, John Mark discusses how identifying landmarks on the journey of our apprenticeship to Jesus can help us get unstuck. This week, he talks about one ancient journey paradigm called The Three Ways to show how the purpose of our spiritual formation is becoming people of love and presence.
Key Scripture Passages: Luke 9v57-62; 1 Corinthians 13v11; Hebrews 5v12-14
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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 naming your stage in apprenticeship series. |
| 0:14.0 | Please turn in your Bibles to Luke 9 as we kick off our spring practice on naming your stage of apprenticeship. |
| 0:28.0 | Are you ready for this? |
| 0:30.0 | Recommended reading, if you're new to our community, we believe that reading is right up there |
| 0:34.0 | with following Jesus. |
| 0:34.9 | It's not really, but we think that. |
| 0:36.8 | A few, all sorts of recommended reading. |
| 0:39.0 | At the top of the list is invitation to a journey |
| 0:42.1 | by Robert, two to highlight, invitation to a journey by Robert's two to highlight invitation to a journey by |
| 0:44.8 | Robert Mulholland. It's a favorite of ours. It's kind of the best all in one place |
| 0:48.9 | book I know of on spiritual formation and one quarter of the book is on naming your stage and then |
| 0:55.1 | it's not on there for some reason but the other one is Sacred Fire by Ronald |
| 0:58.6 | Rollheiser. It's one of my top five books of all time. I read it every single summer on vacation and it's about |
| 1:04.8 | discipleship in the middle years of your life which is the longest and for many of us the |
| 1:10.0 | most exhausting season of life from about 30 to retirement. |
| 1:15.0 | So if you're anywhere in that middle window of life, |
| 1:18.0 | this is a must read for you at some point, |
| 1:21.9 | just to give you one more thing you don't have time for. |
| 1:25.0 | And more for later in the series. |
| 1:28.3 | On that note, Luke Chapter 9, Spirit of God, we just again welcome your presence. And as Gerald said, we just believe that you speak, that you have direct access to our mind and our imagination and our heart and even to our body. |
| 1:51.0 | And so come and speak, come and do your thing. |
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