Teaching | What is the Gospel? | Preaching the Gospel E01
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
“A lot of us are emotionally allergic to preaching the Gospel of Jesus.”
In our post-modern culture, sharing the good news of Jesus can feel insensitive or unkind. John Mark shows us that everyone is believing a “gospel” of what they hope in, and through the Scriptures, unpacks how Jesus preached the Gospel and what it means to rethink and turn towards Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer |
| 0:03.0 | teachings podcast by practicing the way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was originally given at |
| 0:08.4 | Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon |
| 0:10.4 | as a part of the preaching the gospel series. There is a book on racial justice that you are not likely to find on any New York Times bestseller list, |
| 0:25.9 | but it is hands down one of my all-time favorites. It's called Hewia Come Home by Jay Rucker from New Zealand, who is both a follower of Jesus and a Maori writer. |
| 0:36.5 | In it he tells the tragic complex and at the same time beautiful story of the interplay between the indigenous people of |
| 0:44.3 | Ataroa or as we would say New Zealand the missionary movement of the 19th and 20th |
| 0:49.2 | centuries and the multi-generational trauma of colonialism. |
| 0:53.6 | He opens with a story from a few years before the infamous James Kirk, |
| 0:58.4 | who was most definitely not a follower of Jesus. |
| 1:01.2 | Did I say Kirk? |
| 1:02.2 | Cook. See Star Trek right in there. |
| 1:05.0 | Rusty goodness, but you see the nod there in Star Trek, right? |
| 1:10.0 | Before he discovered New Zealand in 1769, |
| 1:14.0 | there was a famous Maori Tribal Prophet or Oracle |
| 1:18.0 | who had a vision of a strange people with white skin |
| 1:22.0 | coming on large ships. |
| 1:25.0 | It was so vivid that he went around from tribe to tribe |
| 1:28.3 | in the north and the south islands |
| 1:30.4 | and to act out the coming Europeans. |
| 1:33.7 | He made a basket and he put it on his head to mimic a hat. |
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