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The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry Preview
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry Preview
Most of us are too busy to live an emotionally and spiritually healthy life.
Dallas Willard once called hurry “the great enemy of spiritual life in our day.”
In our increasingly secular, urban world, hurry is often the issue under all the other issues. The root cause beneath so much of the anger and anxiety of our cultural moment. And followers of Jesus are not immune to culture’s pain.
Many of us live with a low-grade fatigue and chronic anxiety that rarely, if ever, goes away. We careen through our days at breakneck speed, and wonder where God is in the fray.
The reality is, the love, joy, and peace that form the nucleus of Jesus’ kingdom are all impossible in a life of speed. We must, as Willard went on to say, “Ruthlessly eliminate hurry.”
Practicing the Way Preview
Practicing the Way Preview
What if there is a better way to live?
Many of us are exhausted from being pulled in a thousand different directions, distracted by our devices, and discouraged and disillusioned by our lack of spiritual change. We struggle to find time for any spiritual life at all.
Eliminating noise and hurry are great places to start. But we need to live with greater intentionally in our apprenticeship to Jesus in every area of life.
To live by what the first Christian disciples called a Rule of Life — a set of practices and relational rhythms that slow us down and open up space in our daily lives for God to do what only God can do: transform the deepest parts of us to become like him.
Practicing the Way is a primer on spiritual formation, a storehouse of practical wisdom on developing your own Rule of Life, and a manifesto for the future of Christian spirituality. By learning to rearrange our days around the ways of Jesus, we can learn to be with him, become like him, and do as he did.
The future is ancient. It’s practicing the Way.
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About John Mark Comer
I’m a writer, pastor, and founder of Practicing the Way.
For nearly two decades, I was the founding pastor at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon. We spent many years working out apprenticeship to Jesus in the post-Christian West, and organized our community around a simple idea: practicing the Way of Jesus together.
I stepped away from Bridgetown Church in 2021 to start Practicing the Way, where we help churches make lifelong apprentices of Jesus. I’m also the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including Into the quiet, the bestselling Practicing the Way, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.
I live in the Santa Monica Mountains outside Los Angeles with my family, where we are currently church planting, and I am working on new resources for spiritual formation in the modern world.
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