Practicing the Way Podcast Episode 01: Apprentice to Jesus

[@jenniferdavis5834]

Thank you John Mark Comer for allowing me to see, through your teachings and writings, that the longing I had felt in my soul for so many years was the absence of the pursuit of discipleship to Jesus. Now this knowledge I’ve gained with your assistance has led me to the path I was meant to be on my entire life.

[@vedawattieram1974]

I have been seeking to make disciples Matthew 28 ...this podcast illuminates ...❤ Bless you!

[@bethburleson6684]

Thank you, John Mark and Tyler for your continued efforts to shepherd many who are trying to learn HOW to apprentice under Jesus in this modern age. Very grateful for both of you. ❤️❤️❤️

[@pattimoose1]

I "got saved" when I was 16, by myself in my mom's living room. I had no idea what was next. I'd watch Billy Graham crusades and tons of people got saved. No one ever said....Okay, now do this. We have altar calls and people all over turn their hearts over to Jesus. And we rejoice for them! Of course we do! But no one teaches them to follow Jesus!! I'm 70 years old now and have been searching since I was 16 for the "Now What? Oh my goodness, I think I finally found it!!

[@larrywest7458]

I'm new to this type of teaching..I'm a Pastor, it's so real to my heart..thank you for your commitment to Christ and sharing

[@dw2367]

God has called you, JMC, to bless this grand audience, in this season, with all of the long form discussions God has ordained, within you. Thank you for moving into this season, and for being willing to share what the Holy Spirit is revealing to you, with the rest of us.

[@ilanagreen5371]

Such a great an helpful conversation by two awesome humans - thank you John Mark and Tyler for who you are!

[@heistruth2865]

Read Practicing the Way this past summer with my church. Tomorrow we start the study guide with dinner at our church. This was such a practical & vital book. I'm planning on gifting it to friends. Praying they will know Him as He designed.

[@darrylcarlton7958]

Let me add my thoughts to an appreciation of John Mark Comer (and Tyler Staton, too). His genius mind seems to be totally in service to his Lord and mine, Christ Jesus. Ever since I have discovered his teachings, I have not stopped thanking God for him. Amen!

[@ntuthukosoxsokhulu3028]

Thank you so much Tyler and John Mark, been following Bridgetown and JMC’s podcasts since 2021. I’m really loving this journey we are on 🙏🏾

[@thetopcat8946]

I bought this book, I'm reading it. I'm a Messianic Jew and yes The Way is his way.

[@jrponce3732]

Thank you Pastor Comer for shepherding my heart during this season in my life. I have been blessed by embracing a more contemplative spirituality that is much more conducive to becoming like Jesus than the tradition I grew up in. May God continue to use you and your ministry.

[@isaacmwangaza]

I loved every minute of this thank you so much John Mark Comer for sharing this

[@jessicaladd85]

Tyler is a great interviewer!! Learning so much.

[@scottharrison9019]

Thank you John Mark and Tyler, you are such a blessing to my journey from the other side of the USA (Florida). Praying to become part of the 4% who are being with Jesus, becoming like Jesus and doing what Jesus did as a disciple (learner).

[@johnwestwell953]

Thank you for the clarity, simplicity and wisdom of your work. May God bless you as you continue to respond to Rabbi Jesus' call to make disciples.

[@chg1107]

Every cell and fiber in my body longs for this. Spirit of Jesus, please help me. 🙏🏾

[@robinsavard84]

This is a book every person, in every church should read!!!

[@martinbuchwitz6985]

So good, so deep, so healthy. Love it!

[@Diytinyliving]

Thank you for these conversations. After listening it feels as if for the first time I can take a deep breath. Far too much content is shallow and empty but this conversation gives room for a deep consideration.

[@RobSchettler]

Wonderful - let the work begin!! :)

[@ChasingJesus]

We love practicing the WAY!

[@joiwood423]

I am so excited to get my hands on this new book! Thank you Pastor Comer for your faithfulness to following and speaking about the truth!

[@Leawilliams2]

Thank you for this talk, your book, and for following Jesus yourself. I’ve been following your work over the past few years, and I’ve been blessed by your teachings and humility. I’ve been praying for your ministry and your own soul and family. Thank you for bringing these ancient ideas into our current conversations. May God use your contribution to the Church to build up His apprentices!

[@josephnieves6947]

This is amazing!!! Wow thank you for this.

[@thevoiceofconscience]

1000x yes! What a conversation. I'm very much looking forward to the next ones.

[@naturalepiphaniesco.7332]

thanks so much for your work! It’s been super helpful! Would love to see some version of this for Middle School/ Highschool! Brining up a generation of Apprentices to Jesus!

[@saraoostrum300]

ABSOLUTELY GOOD STUFF 😊

[@ojaswijoshi4337]

Congratulations on your new podcast! Best wishes for success, peace, prosperity, abundance, and good health to you and your loved ones.

[@losmcdonald]

"to be not one, but intertwined with another" wow. Amen.

[@JEM0101]

Love the background given and the way forward. The big C church needs this. Praying a way is made for many to come to this understanding and move in this direction. This is definitely radical compared to where the church has been and is. God is doing a new thing! Do you see it? I pray more and more so! So appreciate words to stirrings inside of me. I see many saying this same thing about your work.

[@dustinpoisson]

Wow. This discussion is so fantastic, I'm so excited to see Practicing the Way develop. Count me in!

[@JustJosh365]

This information is so great, I bought 2 copies of your book so you can get some socks! I am kidding about the socks. Thanks for your insight, much appreciated.

[@nicoleboie3794]

Yay! thankful to meet you!! We lost the gifts and passion of Keller & Heiser & have been in need of new voice.

[@lashauncurrie134]

I just bought the book it’s a great read!!

[@anal.mendoza]

Hi John Mark, may the Lord bless you from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic! It's my first time listening to this episode so I really appreciate it.

[@lindajwerner]

Fantastic conversation!

[@justincaseIspeak]

I like your books.

[@jadastricker569]

Love everything else i May buy the book thank you 🙏

[@catlee9198]

I saw you on the YouVersion Bible app this morning and found your channel here. Thank you for the message you are bringing others! Very insightful episode. I found your podcast as well so will follow you there.

[@Blockishbookhead]

Daily trying to crucify the desires that compete with Jesus and His Way for first place in my life. I left behind makeup, fashion, the gym, secular music and entertainment. But after 3 years without these, I see I am only scratching the surface of dying to self. Working on getting rid of as much stuff as I can, so I can spend more time helping the poor and less time managing my stuff. I feel torn about organic food. Jesus says not worry about what you eat. At the same time, our bodies are God’s temples. I could eat poor quality food and give the money I save to the poor, but not eating good quality food might make me have health problems later in life which would get in the way of my being the hands and feet of Jesus. Anybody have any clarity on this issue?

[@chrissteinbacher6552]

Dont fall into the trap of asceticism. Christians often go from one extreme to the other. Stay balanced.

[@tarawatson8624]

Whatever you choose, the more expensive food or charity, are both ways to improve your generous walk. The Lord bless you in your free choices to do good. My thinking changes between every supermarket aisle: cheapest, locally grown, fairtrade, less packaging, in season, grown in sustainable manner and the round again if there are more aisles.

[@BaronReed-rj9rz]

Dr. Michael Heiser (it boils down to believing, loyalty in the finished work of Jesus Christ and trusting, love in the person of Jesus Christ.

[@Brianclark7]

Loved it.

[@warleyrobby]

I love this!

[@dougyip]

Apprenticing to Jesus = apprenticing into Eternal Life -- this is what he means when Jesus says he is the Way, Truth and the "Life". We are invited to be in union with and partake of the Trinity's everlasting way of being - abundant life which overflows the Fruit of the Spirit.

[@Sunwolfe]

I've read the book and plan to suggest or loan it to others...I may have to purchase another as mine is so full of notes, LOL!. You're on to something here, JM. My battle is not necessarily to present Yeshua to my family/friends (F&F) so much as it is to get them to seriously consider Him. They hear "Christianity" with an ear politically and contemporarily tuned and are ultimately uninterested. I think, however, if I can distill the first ten minutes of your exchange with Tyler into a coherent and conversationally expressed thought, I might be able to get F&F to include it in their own thought processes when they hear to term "Christian" or use it politically. The rest is up the Holy Spirit. Thanks so much for your book, brother. Prayers your way that Adonai guard your heart and mind in this--I've a feeling you're gonna need it.

[@kathleenparonto5324]

Amen

[@jjmonty8090]

John Mark, hope to meet you one day, I’d love to get your thoughts on discipleship in a deeper manner. Here are the highlights that I’ve been harping on for a bit with regard to discipleship. 1. Jesus didn’t enter into this Master/Rabbi phase till 30. 2. Discipleship necessitates 2 things: a prepared and willing Rabbi, and a submitted student who has been called by the Rabbi. 3. Discipleship is not a short process. With Jesus it was 3 1/2 years of full time apprenticeship. 4. It seems as though followers of Christ are in one of two stages, either you are a disciple or you have become a master/rabbi. 4.

[@JoshAlicea1229]

I like to say, I’m in the process of converting.

[@DaryleEmch]

Interestingly, the 268 uses of mathetes/disciple in the New Testament occur in the Gospels, Acts, and never again. Why? I tend to think it relates to the message of this podcast and book. We only are to be followers of Christ. Or we are only to follow those who help us to follow Christ.

[@ironwill5884]

Reach back to Antiquity to take hold of a word (disciple) yet never consider the mindset/worldview of those who saw themselves and the world (both visible & invisible) considerably different from we moderns of the West. Call yourself a ‘disciple’ yet stay in your egalitarian post modern worldview and you get this silliness. Being mimetic includes embracing Christ’s Bride (His Church) and THAT should be the center of our lives. Get to Church and allow the mysteries therein to mold you, guide you, and draw you into a closer relationship with the Living God. It’s not about doing your own thing no matter how seemingly pious. It’s about offering back to God all of Life. Get to Church!

[@DonielleWinter]

So shouldn't this discipleship/apprenticeship be taught, like full disclosure, at or before conversion? Rather than wait for someone to "accept Christ"/"trust in Jesus as their Savior" and then as they maybe "mature" during the first 5 years or 25 years after becoming a Christian hope they're drawn toward this idea of apprenticeship/discipleship?

[@tomtammaro9442]

I've been thinking about this too. I would say New Life is based upon faith in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. The 12 were apprenticed for years before having the opportunity to put their faith in the resurrected Jesus. Just a thought

[@robertalbers5293]

I love your comment. And yes to your question. It should be modeled as it's being spoken in to a person ...... thenI.... we give the opportunity to accept and hopefully the spirit will convict them

[@BaronReed-rj9rz]

Dallas Willard is very helpful along the same lines.

[@philyoung7648]

Edified much by "God has a name" in spite of not knowing who JM Comer is. Wanting to know more, a kindle search led to a " Fancy History" biography of JMC which was so strange it made me think that it was written by an AI engine. Did you ok this?

[@FrTreyPhillips]

this is giving off strong obi wan and anakin vibes

[@Box52222]

Just focus on obeying the word. Simple. No psychology needed. Am i wrong?

[@Andy-re5wi]

So what about the demoniac at the mark 5:17 that was saved and his instruction was not to ‘come and follow me’ but stay in the city. Granted when Jesus returned the city was transformed but what do you make to that as apprenticing. Seems like, and I’m a fan of discipleship under Jesus, but the paradigm here is based only the 12 and not the early church. Whereas the 12 were apostles not just 12 people chosen for ignoble purposes

[@bernadettematera-stacey1982]

Jesus said you are My disciples if you obey My commands. Something any other rabbi of the time would say. I didn't hear you mention obedience...

[@MichaelAllanBrown]

Respectfully, please listen again: BECOME LIKE JESUS & DO THE THINGS JESUS DID. This is the definition of obedience to God's will for us.

[@billgoedecke2265]

Thank you - I am interested in Christian scripture - but I do not know what Christians are talking about when they name “Jesus”. I gather that the name originally used in these scriptures was Joshua and that the name Jesus was of Greek origin. Any case I truly believe that Christian scripture says to follow the way of Jesus - not to believe in him - and that Jesus was essentially not religious - that it is about the living waters of the Spirit as spoken about in the parable of the well. That is why I found this video given that the speakers are talking about following the way of Jesus. But I don’t get this idea of devotion to this figure who was apparently a person who lived more than 2,000 years ago. I don’t think it is about following any particular person, whether Jesus, Gautama Buddha, Mohammed, and more, but is about embodying the teaching. I have my practices and find nuggets of truth in scripture.

[@W0nderer]

The Bible speaks about Jesus being a person to follow and a way to reach God. Also that He is God and died and was raised from the dead. Lastly, that through the Holy Spirit (the third part of God) Jesus lives in the hearts of Christians as a physical presence. Jesus also said whoever believed in Him would have eternal life.

[@billgoedecke2265]

@@W0nderer Oh to each his own. For me I need the living faith as Jesus spoke about in the Parable by the Well. And in the words of Jesus when he says that we are the light of the world. For me much of scripture is allegory as Paul alludes to for at least one instance (Galatians 4:21-26).

[@cullisjamesautry]

But wait, there's more!! Jesus didn’t say He was the destination, He said He was the Way to the real destination, the longing of every heart, every spirit, soul & body, to know our Father, our Life Source, to experience our Father, just as Jesus does! When you BEcome a son, you will DO His commandments, Love Him & His Kids, as only a father does. There is nothing like, hearing your Father say to you every morning, every moment of the day, "You are My Beloved son, I'm so pleased with you!" The whole purpose of Jesus' invitation to follow Him is so that He can lead you to know His Dad, His Papa, His Dad!!! Papa is the core longing of every heart!!!

[@greg7384]

JESUS: "If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you." (John 15:19) Progressive "Christians": If we just show the world the real Jesus, they'll love him and his followers!

[@thetopcat8946]

Jew's also practice The Way... Yeshua followed Torah... God's Word... remember He didn't have The New Covenant in written form. .. it's just that some religious leaders of his day placed heavy burden's on people. God sent his word to teach people how to live. We need rules. Most Jew's don't follow or know Yeshua/Jesus, but many are following him today. Many have embrased his way of applying God's Torah.

[@realestatewithme7040]

🙂

[@viennehaake9149]

So the hipster caveman is your latest GURU. Ugh, Just trying so hard to be cool. Alarms go off!

[@arjovogel9797]

The Kingdom of God was presented for the Jews in the first century. Jesus presented the gospel of the Kingdom for the Jews. They reject the gospel of the Kingdom as leadership and nation. After that Jesus begun to talk about His suffering and His Dying. This is The gospel of substitution for the whole world!The gospel of the Kingdom is for the Future when Jesus come back especially for Israël. Then start the Kingdom with Jesus ruling from Jerusalem. We are now Living in the church Age. So You have to be very careful that you don't put your teachings and theology on the Kingdom of Heaven. You have to get your doctrine mainly from the letters wrote to the churches because we are Living in the church Age. We are not Living in the First Century we are not Jews. Jesus is now sitting on the right hand of the Father And praying for us as a High Priest. So we don't has to forget in what Area we live. We are Living in the church Age in the age of grace and the holy Spirit is Living Inside of us we are not living in the age that Jesus walked Here on earth as the Jewish Messiah. Of course we can learn from His amazing teachings and we see much simmalarity in the letters but we can not get all our doctrine from it. we live after Jesus crucifixion death and resurrection and Ascension. in the period of the Holy Spirit in us. this is a totally different period than when Jesus walks here on earth in Israel as the Jewish promised messiah.

[@pakelgoynshmoynzgravar]

-khm

[@philipcho1538]

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