John Mark Comer

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Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer · Water From A Deep Well | Rhythm E04 · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah, the Middle East, right, which was still highly Christian for the first thousand years, right?

And the church is thriving outside the Roman Empire to the east in the Middle East and Africa.

It was way ahead culturally of Europe, correct?

Yeah, I remember reading Philip Jenkins on that, and he has the picture of the standards, a famous missionary map from, I think, 1905.

And Jerusalem is all the way over on the right-hand side of the map, and it shows the spread of the gospel from Jerusalem through Asia Minor and the Roman Empire into Europe and then across.

Ireland did.

And

across the Atlantic to America.

And then I'm at California on the other side.

And he basically says, in the first thousand years, or certainly the first six to 800 years, you could draw the same map and put Jerusalem all the way on the

trace the spread of the church all the way to Korea and possibly Japan.

And there would have been more Christians to the east than to the west.

But the monastic movement goes both ways, right?

It does.

East and west.

So they're planting monasteries in China and in what we would now call Germany and Norway and Ireland, right?

All of it.

I mean,

here.

But there's a rich legacy there.

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