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John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Why read the Bible? John Mark argues that we don't just read the Scriptures to gain information or be entertained, but to be shaped: to become more like the God whose story and character are revealed to us as we read.
Key Scripture Passages: 2 Timothy 3v14-18
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's podcast. I'm Strawn Coleman, your host and part of the teaching team here at practicing the way. |
| 0:16.4 | Each week on the podcast we share a teaching from John Mark or other trusted voices in the formation space. |
| 0:23.6 | In today's teaching, John Mark asks the question, what is the Bible for? |
| 0:29.6 | Exploring it as an alternative story not only to be believed but experienced. |
| 0:35.6 | As you listen, you might like to ask yourself the question, what story do I predominantly |
| 0:41.2 | live out of? gods or cultures. |
| 0:45.2 | Here's John Mack. |
| 0:48.8 | Hey, turning your vibles to Paul's second letter to Timothy. It's right there in the new testament. |
| 0:54.0 | If you're new to the Bible, feel free there's a table of contents right at the beginning and feel free to stop by there |
| 1:00.0 | en route to two Timothy chapter three and we'll read verse 14 in just a minute. |
| 1:05.7 | You guys doing okay? |
| 1:06.7 | You awake? |
| 1:07.7 | You alive? Yeah? |
| 1:08.7 | Good week? |
| 1:09.7 | I love you guys so much. |
| 1:10.6 | I was just up here ignoring what Josh was saying and thinking about how... so much I love you guys. |
| 1:15.0 | I love you guys. |
| 1:16.4 | It's okay, I was listening during the five, |
| 1:18.6 | but you know, it's pretty simple. |
| 1:20.6 | I'm not going to Vancouver, so who cares? |
| 1:22.3 | But thinking about how much I love you guys, it's such a joy to be a part of this community. |
| 1:28.5 | Hope you had a good week. My highlight of the week, my wallet was stolen. Yeah, out of my car. Yeah, but here's the awesome part. So the thief |
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