When you think of Eden, don’t think of a public park with a lawn, a play set, and a flowerbed or two, where God hands Adam a lawnmower and says, Keep it tidy, will ya? Think of a violent, untamed wilderness teeming with beauty, but no infrastructure, no roads, no bridges, no cities, no civilization, and God says, Go make a world. Adam wasn’t a landscape-maintenance employee. He was an explorer, a cartographer, a gardener, a designer, an architect, a builder, an urban planner, a city-maker.

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

Source: Garden City

Topics: Work & Vocation, Meaning & Identity, Guidance & God's Will

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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