Calling: The Inward Journey | Discovering Your Identity and Calling E3 (Revamped)
John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
"The main thing God gets out of your life is the person you become" - Dallas Willard
Our calling isn't just about what we do with our lives: it's also about who we become. John Mark talks about the inward journey: who we are called to be as believers, and how to get there.
Key Scripture Passages: Matthew 4v18-22; Matthew 9v9-13
Discussion Guide: https://practicingthewayarchives.org/identity/part-three
Other Resources:
The Road Back to You, Suzanne Collins
Invitation to a Journey, Robert Mulholland
The Road to Character, David Brooks
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching Podcast. I'm Strawn Coleman, your host and part of the teaching team here practicing the way. |
| 0:15.5 | Each week on the podcast we share a teaching from John Mark or other trusted voices in the |
| 0:21.4 | formation space. In today's teaching, John Mark |
| 0:25.2 | explores what it looks like to embark on an inner journey of self-awareness, |
| 0:30.0 | confronting what the New Testament authors call our old or false self. |
| 0:35.4 | If you like as you listen, maybe consider asking yourself the question, |
| 0:39.8 | how am I going on my own journey of self-awareness? |
| 0:44.6 | Here's John Mark. |
| 0:46.0 | Turn to Matthew Chapter 4. Matthew Chapter 4. |
| 0:55.0 | It is great to see all of you tonight and welcome and wherever you're at with Jesus. |
| 1:02.0 | This is a safe place and we're just really |
| 1:04.4 | happy you're here. But that said our church is built around this idea of |
| 1:08.1 | practicing the way of Jesus and because of that every few months we take on a practice from the life and or the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. |
| 1:17.0 | And we're three or four weeks into our fall practice that is discovering our identity and calling. |
| 1:24.4 | And the basic idea, if you missed the last week or two, |
| 1:27.6 | is that our self-awareness, or our lack of self-awareness, |
| 1:32.0 | has a direct bearing on our relationship to God, as well as on our relationship |
| 1:37.2 | to other people, our wife, or husband, or co-worker, a boss, or children, or aunt or whoever, and as well as on our relationship to our own soul. |
| 1:45.8 | Now this is not a new idea at all in the fourth century Augustine prayed, |
| 1:51.2 | may I know you, may I know myself. |
| 1:55.3 | Thomas Akempis, a towering intellect |
| 1:58.0 | from medieval Western Christianity, said this, |
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