For the Sake of the City (ft. Tyler Staton) | For the Sake of Others E4

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

How can we live out Jesus' vision for our cities amidst the complexities of modern life? In this teaching, Tyler Staton offers us a compelling vision for loving our neighbors and communities, both acknowledging the obstacles we must overcome in living that vision and challenging us to reorient our values and priorities around the Kingdom of God rather than our broader culture.

Key Scripture Passage: Romans 12v2-3

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the John Mark Homer Teachings podcast. My name is Inga Dawson and I'm your host.
0:10.0	Each week we feature teachings by John Mark or other voices in the formation space.
0:15.6	Today we continue our series for the sake of others and how our spiritual formation is onto becoming people of love.
0:24.0	In this message, Tyler Staten gives us a vision for what it looks like to love our cities
0:28.8	and neighbors and miss the complexities of modern life. Here's the teaching.
0:36.8	Romans chapter 12 verse 2.
0:40.3	Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
0:46.5	Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is, his good, pleasing, and perfect will.
0:53.8	This is the word of the Lord.
0:55.2	Thanks be to God.
1:04.6	March the 13th, 2024 was a Wednesday.
1:10.6	I woke up sick as a dog a little over halfway through chemo.
1:15.4	The oncologist did tell me that it was the most toxic treatment that anyone in the practice
1:20.9	would be receiving, but I'm young and my body could take it. And that would give us the best
1:25.7	chances of knocking these tumors out once and for
1:29.3	all. And so I agreed in principle, but now I was like a marathon runner on the back half of the race,
1:36.9	all the adrenaline of the start long gone, but the finish line nowhere in sight either.
1:43.5	And I woke up that morning to a text from David, a video.
1:48.7	David Yagnazar, as some of you will recall,
1:51.1	as the director of Elon Ministries,
1:53.0	the largest church planting and pastoral training movement in Iran,
1:57.0	where the worship of Jesus is illegal to the tune of the death penalty.
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