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John Mark Comer’s Practicing the Way model of discipleship has gained traction among Christians, spiritual seekers, and churches around the world because it is biblically faithful, theologically grounded, and psychologically realistic. It is designed to support the spiritual formation of people who actually want to become like Jesus in daily life. Here are six key strengths of …
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Here are ten classic spiritual disciplines or practices for Christian discipleship, drawn from Scripture and centuries of church tradition. There are many more. 1. Sabbath (Rest) A weekly rhythm of ceasing from work to delight in God’s creation, grace, and sovereignty (e.g., Gen 2:2–3; Ex 20:8–11). Sabbath is a time for rest, play, feasting and celebration, …
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When you look at the amount of persecution and martyrdom of Christians around the world, the statistics tell a sobering story. According to Open Doors’ World Watch List, 4,476 Christian were killed for faith-related reasons in 2024, and some 380 million Christians today suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith.[1] A martyr is literally a …
Romanian Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was a great twentieth-century scholar of religious history and religious experience. He is perhaps best known for his work on seeking to identify universal patterns in human history and experience, and for his theory of hierophanies, or “manifestations of the sacred.” For Eliade, persons and objects “acquire their reality, their identity, only …
John 12:23-24; Luke 9:23 Sprouted shoots of barley and wheat. Walk into almost any church, and you will see one of two realities – either the predictable machinations of moralistic therapeutic deism and passive consumer religion, or the beauty, mystery and enthusiasm of a gathered community of Jesus followers, experimentally living out their faith. One reality …
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