What We Get Wrong About God: A Conversation With John Mark Comer and Ger Jones About God Has a Name (Part 1)
John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Do we project our own ideas onto God? In this first of two conversations with Ger Jones of Vintage Church LA, John Mark and Ger explore the significance of God having a name and how God's self-disclosure often contradicts our assumptions. They challenge us to re-examine and adjust our implicit knowledge of God by reckoning with God's character revealed in Scripture.
You can read more in the expanded hardcover edition of John Mark’s book God Has a Name, now available wherever books are sold.
Key Scripture Passage: Exodus 34v6-7
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the John Mark Comer teachings podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Strawn Coleman, your host and part of the teaching team here at Practicing the Way. |
| 0:12.0 | Each week on this show, we share a teaching from John Mark or other trusted voices in the formation space, |
| 0:18.0 | and it is great to have you with us. |
| 0:26.4 | Today we're bringing you part one of a conversation between John Mark and lead pastor of Vintage Church, L.A., Geer Jones, exploring the re-release of God has a name. |
| 0:33.2 | In today's conversation, they begin by exploring God's nature as it's expressed in Exodus |
| 0:38.8 | 34 and what that means for our relationship with him. |
| 0:44.0 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:46.0 | Joe Mark, it's a delight to be with you. |
| 0:49.3 | Particularly to talk about a book I love, God has a name. Thank you so much for writing such a |
| 0:56.5 | profoundly helpful book. Let's begin. I just want to talk about it a bit together. Why did you |
| 1:01.8 | write it? Well, it's always a delight to be with you, my friend. You know, I was thinking about |
| 1:07.6 | that this morning. It goes back to my time in a seminary cohort |
| 1:11.6 | many years ago. I had a chance to do a kind of unique model of seminary that was cohort-based. |
| 1:18.6 | It was myself and 12 other pastors. It was all Socratic. We'd read a ton and write a ton. And then |
| 1:24.2 | it's been one full day a month, actually in my living room, just basically |
| 1:27.6 | arguing about the Bible. And it was really fun for five years. But early in that process, |
| 1:33.2 | I think the class was Old Testament overview or something like that. Our professor, Dr. Gary |
| 1:38.3 | Pashir's, was working his way through the Old Testament. And we got to Exodus 34, which is the story of Israel, right out of Egypt, in the desert, |
| 1:49.8 | at the foot of Mount Sinai. |
| 1:51.3 | And Moses goes up the mountain and prays, you know, God, show me your glory. |
| 1:55.5 | And then there's this really unique moment where God passes in front of Moses but proclaims his name is the language. So the prayer |
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