Teaching | The Way of the World | Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil E05
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 29 July 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
How do we resist being shaped by modern culture? The "world," as the New Testament writers called it, shapes how we think and live. John Mark discusses how we can discover how we being shaped by culture. By learning how to reconnect with God's definitions of good and evil in those ways, we find how to be "in the world but not of it."
Key Scripture Passages: John 15v18-21; John 17v6-18; 1 John 2v15-17; Romans 1v20; 1 John 3v16;
Resources for this practice:
https://practicingthewayarchives.org/practices/fighting
Why Liberalism Failed, Patrick Deneen
Liberal Christianity, Theo Hobson
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
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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 Fighting the World, the Flesh and MTV Music Awards. |
| 0:27.0 | Anybody remember this? |
| 0:28.0 | Anybody old enough? |
| 0:29.0 | It's the 9 a.m. |
| 0:30.0 | You're all at the 9 a.m. |
| 0:32.0 | Sean Fanning, the co-founder of Napster, |
| 0:36.0 | is on stage wearing a Metallica t-shirt. |
| 0:39.0 | When asked by whoever that celebrity I can't remember the name of. |
| 0:44.0 | What's his name? |
| 0:45.0 | Mmm, that's right. I was still coming out of homeschool at that point. |
| 0:49.0 | Carson Daly. |
| 0:51.0 | When asked about his t-shirt, his answer was, quote, |
| 0:54.3 | a friend of mine shared it with me. |
| 0:57.8 | Now, backstory, a few months before, Metallica, |
| 1:00.8 | is in the studio working on a song called I Disappear for the Mission Impossible soundtrack. |
| 1:07.0 | One day they wake up and the song is on radio stations all across the country. |
| 1:12.0 | Only thing is it's not done yet, it's not even mixed, somebody |
| 1:16.0 | stole it. Now they trace the theft back to the then unheard of fledgling file sharing program called Napster, |
| 1:24.8 | where it turns out Metallica's entire catalog |
| 1:28.6 | is available for free to download. |
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