John Mark Comer

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3,965 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 6d ago

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Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer · Water From A Deep Well | Witness E01 · 25 May 2026 podcast

And in it, they had to face west and renounce Satan. voice-verified

Correct. voice-verified

Publicly, verbally, out loud, in the standing in the water before the church, and then face to the east and proclaim allegiance to Christ as the true Lord. voice-verified

And Jenkins just mentions this is not a secular world. voice-verified

They believed very much in the Satan and in demonic powers. voice-verified

This was a world where to stay. voice-verified

Stand there and publicly verbally renounce Satan was thought of as terrifying and these catechumens did it in the water as an act of allegiance to Jesus. voice-verified

Mm-hmm. voice-verified

In their process before baptism. voice-verified

Every morning and do I understand that sermons and there's a long complex history here. voice-verified

Which take different shapes and forms over two thousand years of history, but really they come less from Sunday and more from the catechumenate. voice-verified

You would go and listen to a sermon or a lecture or teaching from the bishop or your local pastor in the morning with your sponsor to develop a Christian imagination. voice-verified

they really seem to bel I think you said to me once that the early church believed that Christians were made, not born. voice-verified

Mm-hmm. voice-verified

Tell me. voice-verified

Yeah, that's actually voice-verified

novitiate for a monastic order where it was based on the three year catechumenate. voice-verified

We'll talk about that when we get there, right? voice-verified

As Christendom becomes a thing and there isn't that wide gap between a follower of Jesus and the wider culture, and then kind of the felt need goes away. voice-verified

But it seems to me that martyrdom is in many ways the inciting event for the catechumenate because they had such a sharp awareness that I think we maybe don't have or dole to today, of allegiance to Jesus meant. voice-verified

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