Why Contemplation Matters: A Conversation With John Mark Comer and Ger Jones About God Has a Name (Part 2)

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Why is there such a disconnect between who we want to be and what we actually do? In this second of two conversations with Ger Jones of Vintage Church LA, John Mark and Ger discuss the practice of contemplation. John Mark argues that we overestimate the ability of willpower and insight to change us. Instead, he offers us three doorways into the practice of contemplation and practical suggestions for integrating this practice in our lives.

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: 2 Corinthians 3v18

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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.
0:13.0	Each week on this podcast we share a teaching from John Mark or other trusted voices in the formation space.
0:19.0	And it's great to have you with us in part
0:23.8	two of this discussion John Mark and Gere Jones talk about the practice of
0:28.4	contemplation and the invitation for each of us to spend time gazing at the
0:33.8	beauty of God and being formed by him.
0:39.9	As you listen, you may like to ask,
0:45.0	which of the three doorways into contemplation do you most resonate with?
0:48.3	Here's John Mark and Gere Jones.
0:54.2	John Mark, it's great to talk again.
0:58.6	Last time we had a wonderful conversation around your book, God has a name,
1:01.0	and really digging into why you wrote that and some of the profoundly helpful things you write in that book
1:05.1	for us to discover who the real God is and the beauty of who the real God is.
1:09.5	And we ended with a really important journey from just knowing the contents of that book
1:17.1	and who God is, to actually seeing that knowledge truly transform us and change us, and
1:24.1	for it to be experienced, not just head knowledge.
1:34.4	In this new edition of God has a name, you've written an extra chapter specifically around how we go on that journey from explicit knowledge, as you put it to internal knowledge.
1:39.9	Tell us a bit about this journey and why it was so important for you to write for this new edition, this chapter.
1:47.6	Yeah, I think, you know, it's been about seven or eight years since I wrote the original version.
1:54.6	And in that time span, I have become increasingly aware of the dramatic limitations of insight and willpower to change us.
2:10.9	You know, I think there's something really, there's a lot of overlap between both kind of evangelical
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