The Journey | Discovering Your Identity and Calling E1 (Revamped)
John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Our identity and calling has ramifications for who we become and what we do with our lives. John Mark lays out a biblical framework for this journey of discovery, encouraging us to embrace this process with community and the Holy Spirit.
Key Scripture passages: Matthew 3v13-4v11; John 1v20-28; Matthew 16v13-18;
Discussion Guide: https://practicingthewayarchives.org/identity/week-one
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teachings Podcast. I'm Strawn Coleman, your host and part of the teaching team here at practicing the way. |
| 0:15.0 | Here on the podcast each week we share a teaching from John Mark or other trusted voices in the formation space. |
| 0:22.0 | Today John Mark teaches us a New Testament framework for self-discovery |
| 0:28.0 | and encourages us that in the words of Thomas Murden to be a saint is to be ourselves as he explores what that means from a biblical |
| 0:36.5 | worldview. As you listen to John Mark today describing the different moments in our process of discovery, |
| 0:45.2 | you might like to keep in the back of your mind the question, |
| 0:49.7 | where am I on my own journey? Here's John Mark. |
| 1:02.7 | A few nights ago we had some friends over for dinner and we had a great time but Jude, my firstborn, who's in the middle school group right now, was just a bit off that night. Normally if you know Jude, he is charming and intelligent |
| 1:06.7 | in the life of the party, which he did not get from me at all. |
| 1:10.7 | But for whatever reason, he was just not himself. 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 little's to sleep and I sat down with |
| 1:25.4 | Jude kind of the foot of the bed for the father's son talk and just you know |
| 1:28.9 | started to go in gentle you know because I know I'm an eagram type one, some of you don't know what that means, I know what that means. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm just like, father wound waiting to happen, all right? |
| 1:37.6 | So I'm aware of that. |
| 1:39.5 | So I ease in, hey, you know, did you, how is your day today? |
| 1:45.9 | Did anything bad happen at school today? |
| 1:48.4 | And he's in that like pre-teenager phase. |
| 1:51.0 | So like his language devolved a few months ago to like yes |
| 1:54.1 | no or a grunt and so no and we have a great relationship but it was not |
| 1:59.0 | obvious at that moment okay are? Are you doing okay? |
| 2:03.2 | Yes. |
| 2:04.2 | Anything you want to talk about? |
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