{"id":1328,"date":"2025-09-10T21:18:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesusworldview.org\/resource-library\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2025-09-10T22:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:14:58","slug":"practicing-the-way-be-with-jesus-become-like-him-do-as-he-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesusworldview.org\/resource-library\/practicing-the-way-be-with-jesus-become-like-him-do-as-he-did\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus; Become like him; Do as he did"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by John Mark Comer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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When speaking to ministers and lay leaders on \u201cInfusing a Jesus Worldview into Congregational Culture\u201d I encouraged dispelling the unexamined idea that Bible study and spiritual formation are synonymous and to significantly elevate spiritual formation as a focused congregational pursuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Mark Comer\u2019s Practicing the Way<\/em> is a current, compelling, off-the-shelf resource for congregations and small groups. His writings strike me as \u201cnext in line\u201d among the well-known spiritual formation thought and practice leaders of the 20th<\/sup> and 21st<\/sup> centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comer flows in the same stream of such mentors as Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, Robert Mulholland and others, and references their works often. As a next generation spiritual formation leader, Comer\u2019s language is contemporary, inspiring, easily digestible, and compassionately healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, the disciplines \u2014 or practices \u2014 taught in Practicing the Way<\/em> are comfortably familiar and readily actionable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comer champions a life and worldview in which Jesus is the orienting center. Period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His clarion call (and the tagline of Practicing the Way<\/em>) is simply:\u201cBe with Jesus. Become more like him. Do what he did in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practicing the Way<\/em>seeks to encourage and foster this kind of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comer notes that the life of Jesus \u2014 as evidenced in scripture \u2014 exemplifies a particularly identifiable rhythm composed of several practices or spiritual disciplines. He calls this rhythm \u201cA Rule of<\/em> Life\u201d \u2014 not \u201cRules for<\/em> Life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The introductory, eight-week study on Practicing the Way<\/em> is available at no cost at https:\/\/www.practicingtheway.org\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is video driven (free video download or play from a computer) and is complete with a companion study guide as a free download. A printed copy may be ordered for a fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resources for deeper study abound. Participants gather each week for group work and discussion and are provided with practical, individual \u201chomework\u201d between group sessions geared toward the development of a personal Rule of Life by the end of the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Comer states, this study is a primer \u2014 a first effort. The longer we practice our Rule of Life, the better at it we become. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or the more we are with Jesus the more like him we become and the more likely we are to live like he did in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study itself works best in a small group setting but the subject matter easily lends itself to larger groups and sermon series.  There are also free, four-week studies of each of the practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book, Practicing the Way<\/em>,while not necessary for group study, is well worth the read and widely available from booksellers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This resource was enthusiastically received for focused spiritual formation and is making a measurable impact on our congregation.  The culture is noticeably changing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review by David White, Connections Pastor at Johns Creek Baptist Church in Alpharetta, GA. To learn more about how this congregation used this resource email him at dwhite@jcbc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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