In a lonely, fractured culture, Jesus offers a new kind of family. Discover the communal Way of Jesus through this guide from New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way.
Despite the unprecedented connectivity of the modern era, our time is marked by isolation, transience, and superficiality. But Jesus invites his followers into genuine relationships, not just around a stage, but around a table-a place that offers intimacy, joy, healing, and commitment.
This Companion Guide to the Community Practice from Practicing the Way offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, and guided readings. The Community Practice features four sessions designed to be run with your community and is available online for free.
This guide will help you:
• Build rhythms of intentional connection with others
• Create safe spaces in which to share your joys and sorrows
• Confess your brokenness and begin healing
• Develop committed relationships that grow in mature love
Living in community in our time of radical individualism is not always easy-but it's beautiful, opening us to healing, happiness, and love. John Mark Comer is the founding pastor of Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon, a teacher and writer with Practicing the Way, and the New York Times bestselling author of multiple books, including Practicing the Way, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, and Live No Lies.
Practicing the Way is a nonprofit that creates spiritual formation resources for churches and small groups learning how to become apprentices of the Way of Jesus. We believe one of the greatest needs of our time is for people to discover how to become lifelong disciples of Jesus. To that end, we help people learn how to be with Jesus, become like him, and do as he did through the practices and rhythms he and his earliest followers lived by.
