A Four Week Online Discussion Group on John Mark Comer’s 2024 book, Practicing The Way
Dates: May 6 – 31
90-minute Zoom Discussion Meetings on Thursdays at 6 PM. Meetings will be recorded, so you can watch back at any time!
Cost: Pay What You Can!
About The Book
It’s not enough to slow down and simplify our lives; we need to live with a greater level of intentionality in our apprenticeship to Jesus.
The first followers of Jesus developed a Rule of Life, a set of habits and practices based on the life of Jesus himself, that put God at the center of their lives. They made space for God to do what they could not — form them into people who are like their rabbi, Jesus.
Practicing the Way is a vision for the future that has been shaped by the wisdom of the past — a time when to be a Christian meant to apprentice under Jesus in living. As an introduction to spiritual formation, it’s accessible to beginners and lifelong followers of Jesus. It’s also the culmination of many years of learning, thinking, working, and teaching on spiritual formation, and my manifesto for the future of the church in the post-Christian West.
This book is an invitation to apprenticeship to Jesus and a guide for a more embodied faith. Through practices like Sabbath, prayer, solitude, and other everyday rhythms from the life of Jesus, we can open deeper and deeper layers of our souls to Jesus to heal and transform.
The future is ancient.
It’s practicing the Way.
About The Author
John Mark Comer is a teacher and writer from Topanga Canyon in LA. For nearly two decades, he was the founding pastor at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon where he spent many years working out discipleship to Jesus in the post-Christian West, and organized his community around a simple idea: practicing the Way of Jesus together.
In 2021, after leading a five-year initiative around spiritual formation called “Practicing the Way,” he stepped away from this role to create simple, beautiful formation resources for church communities around the world. Today, he’s developing new practices, courses, and podcasts for Practicing the Way and serving as a teacher in residence at Vintage Church LA with his wife T and three kids.
He’s also the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including Practicing the Way, the bestselling The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, and others. He
What You’ll Get
From This Group
As a member, you’ll get a few great benefits from being here:
Weekly Discussion: Once a week, we will gather together online to discuss the weeks reading.
You never miss out. As long as you are a part of our community, you can access all the resources, collective learning and conversation, online gathering recordings, and content.
Meet new people. Your fellow members are as motivated as you are to dive into what we’re exploring.
Get results. As you dive into the book and meet the community here, you’re on a path of formation. While it’s not necessarily easy, the transformation we’ll get together matters.
Get To Know Your Guide
Zachary Bryant is the co-founder of Eremos and a spiritual director, life coach, and teacher of the Way of Jesus in Nashville, TN. He completed his Master’s of Divinity at Lipscomb University in 2019 and two years of training in spiritual direction from the Institute for Christian Spirituality in Nashville in 2021. He became a Board-Certified Christian Mental Health Coach in 2021 and completed a third year of spiritual direction training in offering the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola in 2023.