Some of us end up doing a lot of good things, but we never get around to doing the best thing. Because when you get sucked into the tyranny of the urgent (what a great phrase, by the way), you put off what’s really important. When you say yes to everything, you say yes to nothing. The work the Father gave you to do gets put on the back burner, at the bottom of the to-do pile. This is a tragedy because you’re robbing the world of your much-needed contribution.

John Mark Comer (b. 1980), Pastor und Bestsellerautor

Source: Garden City

Topics: Wisdom & Understanding, Work & Vocation, Discipleship

Occasions: For Reflection, Encouragement

John Mark Comer

John Mark Comer (* 1980) ist ein US-amerikanischer freikirchlicher Pastor und Autor, der die Bridgetown Church in Portland mitgründete und die Initiative „Practicing the Way“ leitet. Bekannt wurde er durch Bücher wie „Das Ende der Rastlosigkeit“, in denen er Nachfolge als praktische Einübung geistlicher Disziplinen wie Sabbatruhe, Stille und Entschleunigung beschreibt. Für heutige Bibelleser macht er klassische Formen christlicher Spiritualität alltagsnah zugänglich, stößt jedoch in konservativ-evangelikalen Kreisen wegen seiner Nähe zu kontemplativen Traditionen und der Schwerpunktsetzung auf Praktiken statt Dogmatik auch auf Kritik.

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