How We Change: Intentional Spiritual Formation | Discovering Your Identity and Calling (Revamped) E5

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever tried to change but couldn't make it last? As John Mark taught last week, we're constantly being shaped by our beliefs, habits, relationships, and environment. This week, he tells us how to fight back and create lasting transformation in our lives.

Key Scripture Passages: Luke 6v39-40; Romans 12v2; Matthew 5-7

Discussion Guide: https://practicingthewayarchives.org/identity/part-six

Other Mentioned Resources:

Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster

The Cost of Discipleship by Diedrich Bonhoeffer

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Transcript

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0:14.5	Hello and 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. Each week on the podcast we share a teaching from John Mark
0:19.0	or other trusted voices in the formation space.
0:22.8	In today's teaching, John Mark introduces us to the need for practicing counter-formation in the
0:28.0	culture we're living in, or in the language of the New Testament, discipleship.
0:33.0	He offers us concrete places to begin and to go deeper in our journeys.
0:38.0	So thinking about your own habits, you might like to keep in the back of your mind as you listen
0:41.7	the questions, what can I take up and what can
0:45.4	I let go of in this season?
0:48.6	Here's John Mack.
0:51.1	Please turn your Bibles to Luke Chapter 6. If you don't have one again stick your hand up in the air or feel free just to sit that out. Luke Chapter 6.
1:01.0	We are nearing the end of our practice on discovering your identity and
1:06.5	calling. To start off, can we just talk about the new Sam Smith record? Can we do that in church?
1:22.0	All right, so do you have this?
1:24.0	I hope you have this.
1:26.0	I'm not really even to R&B, and I can't stop listening.
1:29.0	This is so good.
1:31.0	And I think, honest serious though, and I think Sam is, Sam, we're friends.
1:35.0	I think he is a fascinating case study for our cultural moment.
1:41.0	So 20-something, grew up in the church, but he's gay. And so a major
1:47.4	theme in his songwriting is wrestling with that tension between his theology and
1:51.8	his sexuality.
1:52.6	This song is off the new record, it's called Pray.
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