John Mark Comer

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

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Well I'll answer that. voice-verified

it was required to enter the waters. voice-verified

Correct. voice-verified

Um, I was reading Philip Jenkins, uh obviously a scholar of religious history, his book uh The Lost History of Christianity, about the church outside the Roman Empire to the East. voice-verified

And he writes about, I think it was Cyril of Jerusalem, but one of the bishops who in we have the liturgy from that baptismal moment at the end of the catechumenate. voice-verified

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

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