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“One of the most important books I have read in a decade . . . If we would all follow in this way, our lives would change and the world would change.”—Jennie Allen, author of Get Out of Your Head and Find Your People
We are constantly being formed by the world around us. To be formed by Jesus will require us to become his apprentice.
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—transforms the deepest parts of us to become like him.
This introduction to spiritual formation is full of John Mark Comer’s trademark mix of theological substance and cultural insight as well as practical wisdom on developing your own Rule of Life.
These ancient practices have much to offer us. By learning to rearrange our days, we can follow the Way of Jesus. We can be with him. Become like him. And do as he did.
- Print length288 pages
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- PublisherWaterBrook
- Publication dateJanuary 16, 2024
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- ISBN-100593193822
- ISBN-13978-0593193822
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“I love John Mark Comer’s vision for life—to be with Jesus, become more like him, and aspire to do what Jesus would do. This book can help us all in our own walk with Jesus.”—Nicky Gumbel, pioneer of Alpha
“In Practicing the Way, John Mark Comer brilliantly shows us what it means to follow Jesus, and here is the best part: As you read, you will want nothing more than to be on Jesus’ heels. We are a disciple-less generation, and yet, walking this closely with Jesus is our way back to the purpose of life. This is one of the most important books I have read in a decade, and if we would all follow in this way, our lives would change and the world would change.”—Jennie Allen, New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head and Find Your People and founder and visionary of IF:Gathering
“In Practicing the Way, John Mark Comer offers us a portrait of following Jesus that is as profound and compelling as it is simple. Be prepared to take an honest look at your own life habits and prayerfully ask, What kind of person am I becoming and Is it more like Jesus or less? Here you will find a beautiful picture of the kind of life Jesus envisioned for his followers and a practical pathway to experience it for yourself.”—Tim Mackie, co-founder of BibleProject
“This is the book that I want everyone in my church to read. It is an invitation deeper for the lifelong follower of Jesus, and the perfect primer for the new believer. Somehow, in a way only John Mark can do, he has plunged the depths of the gospel invitation in a way that is relatable, accessible, and readable for the everyday seeker.”—Tyler Staton, lead pastor of Bridgetown Church
“Herein is a window to the meaning and significance of life that only Jesus affords. John Mark has given us the antidote to failed religion and generational hypocrisy. Read it slowly. Be changed deeply.”—Rev. Dr. Charlie Dates, senior pastor of Salem Baptist Church of Chicago and Progressive Baptist Church, Chicago
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Apprentice to Jesus
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Imagine this: Your name is Simon. You’re a first-century Hebrew, likely in your late teens or early twenties. You run a fishing business in the Galilee, a string of villages in the north of Israel. Your life is pretty much mapped out for you. You do what your father did, and his father before him. Living under Roman occupation, there aren’t a lot of options. Keep your head down, be quiet, pay your taxes.
One day you’re waist deep in water, casting your net alongside your brother, Andrew, when you notice a man walking toward you on the beach. You instantly recognize his face. It’s him: Jesus, from Nazareth, just a few miles away. Everyone is talking about this man—he is saying and doing things no rabbi has said or done. Ever.
Here he is, walking straight toward you. You make eye contact. His eyes sparkle like stars, like there’s a cosmos behind them. He radiates joy, but there’s no small talk:
Come, follow me . . . and I will send you out to fish for people.
You’re absolutely stunned.
It can’t be.
Not you.
You immediately drop your nets, drag Andrew out of the boat (though he doesn’t need any coaxing), leave everything behind, and fall in step behind Jesus, elated to be in his company. Or in the words of the biographer Mark, “At once they left their nets and followed him.”
Now, if you’re familiar with this story, it’s easy to miss how bizarre it is. What would make Simon literally walk away from a profitable business and leave behind his family and friends, with zero planning, all to follow a man with no income stream, no organization, and no official position into an unknown future? Is this drinking the Kool-Aid before there was Kool-Aid?
Or are we missing something?
Jesus was a rabbi
If you were Simon, and Jesus were to visit your synagogue one fine Sabbath morning to preach, the category you likely would have put him in was that of a rabbi, or teacher.
The title rabbi literally means “master.” Rabbis were the spiritual masters of Israel. Not only were they expert teachers of the Torah (the Scriptures of their day); they were also magnetic examples of life with God—those special few who shine with an inner luminescence.
Every rabbi had his “yoke”—a Hebrew idiom for his set of teachings, his way of reading Scripture, his take on how to thrive as a human being in God’s good world. How you, too, could taste a little of what they’d tasted . . .
Rabbis came from a broad cross section of society. They could have been farmers or blacksmiths or even carpenters. Most trained under another rabbi for many years, then began to teach and call their own disciples around the age of thirty. But there was no formal certification like in our modern educational system. Authority worked differently. Your life and teaching were your credentials.
Rabbis were itinerant, and most were unpaid. (Some worked their farms or ran businesses for seasons of the year, then traveled in the off-season.) They walked from town to town to teach in whatever synagogue would have them, relying on the hospitality of people of peace. They often spoke in parables and riddles. Normally, they traveled with a small band of disciples, teaching not in a classroom but in the open air and along the road—not from a textbook or curriculum but from the Torah and the school of life.
Over and over again in the four Gospels, Jesus is addressed as “rabbi.”
But he was no ordinary rabbi.
Everywhere he went, the crowds were “astonished” and “overwhelmed with wonder.” The biographer Luke wrote, “All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips.” Mark said, “The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law.” They gave feedback like “Where did this man get this wisdom . . . ?” and even “No one ever spoke the way this man does.”
Of course, saying that Jesus was a rabbi is about as insightful as saying that he was Jewish (although that’s another truth copious numbers of people forget). But sadly, very few people—including many Christians—take Jesus seriously as a spiritual teacher.
To some, he’s a wraithlike apparition, there to inspire later generations to a fuzzy kind of goodwill. To others, he is a social revolutionary—resist!—fist up to the Roman Empire then and all empires now. To a large number of Western Christians, he is a delivery mechanism for a particular theory of atonement, as if the only reason he came was to die, not to live.
As a result, many Christians don’t consider Jesus all that smart. Holy, sure. Kind, yes. Even divine. But intelligent? Not really.
An increasing number of Christians don’t agree with him on crucial matters of human flourishing. They would rather trust a politician, celebrity, or pastor gone rogue than Jesus the teacher and the disciples who studied directly under him. They would never even think to consult Jesus on the pressing matters of our time: politics, racial justice, sexuality, gender, mental health, and so on. As Dallas Willard said, “What lies at the heart of the astonishing disregard of Jesus found in the moment-to-moment existence of multitudes of professing Christians is a simple lack of respect for him.”
This is vital, because if to “follow” Jesus is to trust him to lead you to the life you desire, it’s very hard (if not impossible) to entrust your life to someone you don’t respect.
But what if Jesus was more intelligent than any other teacher in history? More than Stephen Hawking or Karl Marx or even the Buddha? What if he was a brilliant sage with insight into the human condition that is still, two millennia later, without parallel? What if he simply has no equal or peer?
Now, that could be someone to put your trust in.
Of course, to call Jesus a brilliant rabbi is not to say he was just a brilliant rabbi. The sign hanging above Jesus’ head when he was crucified said King of the Jews, not Guru. It tells you a lot about Jesus that his enemies perceived him as a political threat.
This would have made perfect sense in Jesus’ culture. Moses, the great historical luminary of the Jewish people, was called Moshe Rabbenu (“Moses Our Rabbi”) and Israel’s Great Teacher. First-century Israelites were waiting for a new Moses to appear and lead a new exodus out of the Roman Empire—a figure they began to call the Messiah. Some expected the long-awaited Messiah to appear as a warrior or military leader, but many expected him to come as a great teacher. As two scholars put it, “The Jewish people believed that becoming a great scholar of the Scriptures represented life’s supreme achievement. In such a culture, it made sense that the Messiah should be the greatest of teachers. No wonder Jesus became a Jewish rabbi.”
But we Christians believe he was even more than the Messiah. Jesus made claims that no Jewish king would ever dare utter—claims that got him accused of blasphemy, a capital offense in his world. As one of his critics put it, “We are not stoning you for any good work . . . but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”
But to say Jesus was more than just a rabbi or even the Messiah is not to say he was anything less than a brilliant, provocative, wise, spiritual master of how to live and thrive in this our Father’s world.
He was a rabbi. And like most rabbis of his day, Jesus had disciples . . .
Three goals of an apprentice
Contrary to popular opinion, Jesus did not invent discipleship. Rabbis with a small coterie of disciples were regularly seen walking around Galilee. Just a few years before Jesus, Rabbi Hillel called eighty disciples. Rabbi Akiva—a famous teacher a few decades after Jesus—had only five, but thousands were said to “follow” him around Israel. In the New Testament itself, John the Baptizer had disciples, as did the Pharisees; the apostle Paul was formerly a disciple of a nationally known rabbi named Gamaliel. Discipleship (or, as I’m about to relabel it, apprenticeship) was the pinnacle of the first-century Jewish educational system, much like a PhD or graduate program is in our system today.
That means to understand discipleship, we first must understand the Jewish educational system. (Don’t worry; I promise to keep this short.)
Jewish kids started school around five years old at the local bet sefer (“the house of the book”), which was the equivalent of elementary school. Normally the bet sefer was built onto the side of the synagogue and run by a full-time scribe or teacher. The curriculum was the Torah, and in an oral culture, by the age twelve or thirteen, most kids would have the entire Torah—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy—memorized. At that point, the vast majority of students went home. They would apprentice in the family business or help run the farm.
But the best and brightest would go on to a second level of education, called bet midrash (“the house of learning”), where they would continue their studies. By the age of seventeen, they would have memorized—wait for it—the entire Old Testament.
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John Mark Comer is the New York Times bestselling author of Practicing the Way, Live No Lies, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, God Has a Name, and three more. His podcasts, John Mark Comer Teachings and Rule of Life, have been ranked on top religion and spirituality podcast charts in the U.S. and U.K.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2025Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.
Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did is a transformative guide for anyone seeking to deepen their relationship with Jesus and live out His teachings in practical, everyday life. Whether you're a new believer or someone looking to renew their faith, this book offers valuable insights on how to truly "practice the way" of Christ in a modern world.
Clear and Actionable Approach
One of the standout features of Practicing the Way is its straightforward, actionable approach. The book is structured around three core principles: being with Jesus, becoming like Him, and doing as He did. The author takes readers through each of these steps, offering clear explanations and practical exercises that help individuals embody these principles in their daily lives. The book’s focus on real-world application makes it easy to follow and implement.
Holistic Discipleship
What sets this book apart is its emphasis on holistic discipleship. It isn’t just about knowing more about Jesus; it’s about growing in relationship with Him and reflecting His character in all aspects of life. The author challenges readers to integrate spiritual practices, such as prayer, solitude, and service, into their routines, helping them align their hearts and actions with Christ’s example.
Engaging and Relatable
The writing style is accessible, making complex spiritual concepts easy to understand and apply. The author uses relatable anecdotes and scripture passages to bring the teachings of Jesus into everyday situations, encouraging readers to live with intention and purpose. It’s evident that the book is written with a heart for helping others grow closer to Christ and live out the Gospel in tangible ways.
Spiritual Transformation
Practicing the Way is not just a theoretical study; it’s a call to action. The book encourages spiritual transformation by inviting readers to embrace the rhythms and practices that Jesus modeled. Whether you’re looking to strengthen your faith, serve others more effectively, or cultivate deeper moments of connection with God, this book provides practical steps and tools for spiritual growth.
Ideal for Individual or Group Study
This book is perfect for both individual reflection and group study. The author includes questions for reflection at the end of each chapter, making it an excellent choice for Bible studies, small groups, or personal devotional time. The thought-provoking exercises and discussions will help deepen understanding and create a community of believers committed to practicing the way of Jesus together.
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Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did is a powerful, transformative resource for anyone who desires to live out their faith in a practical and meaningful way. With its actionable steps, relatable writing, and focus on holistic discipleship, this book is an invaluable guide for Christians at any stage of their faith journey. It’s a refreshing and convicting reminder that following Jesus is not just about belief but about becoming more like Him in every aspect of life.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2025I read this and plan to read it a few more times! It is highlighed to death and has so many amazing points, stories, quotes and insights to walk as Jesus walked. I'm truly thankful for the book and have already gifted it to others. Perfect for new Christians or seasoned Christians. Beautifully written and researched.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2025Amazing book with practical steps to deepen your relationship with Christ!
- Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2025John Mark Comer’s Practicing the Way is a compelling and accessible guide to following Jesus through intentional spiritual disciplines. With clarity and warmth, Comer presents a vision of discipleship that moves beyond belief into daily practice, helping readers cultivate habits that lead to true transformation.
What makes this book stand out is its balance of biblical depth, cultural relevance, and practical application. Comer weaves together Scripture, history, and personal experience in a way that is both thought-provoking and deeply encouraging. His writing is engaging and approachable, making complex ideas easy to understand and apply.
For those desiring a life shaped by the way of Jesus, this book is an invaluable resource. Highly recommended for anyone serious about spiritual formation and as a broad introduction to teachings of classic Christian Mystics. Five stars!
- Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2025I was introduced to John Mark Comer when a friend of mine purchased the hard cover book for me. I am a Kindle lover as it allows me to take ALL of my books everywhere I go.
With that, I purchased the Kindle version of this book!
The book is so good and makes complex theology simple. You can read this book quickly and then see so much more the second time around and wonder how you did not see that the first time. I will continue to come back to this book again and again.
I would have given this book 10 ⭐️ if possible!
If you are ready to be with Jesus throughout your day and be like Jesus in all your ways then this book is for you! In the end, you will learn how to become like Jesus in all that you do and say!
- Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2024Another great read from JMC! Bought this book for my husband because he’d mentioned wanting to read it several times before it was even released but I ended up reading it as well. Not quite as directly applicable as some of his other books, but provides a great framework for practices/spiritual disciplines to incorporate into our lives to follow Jesus more closely and written with so much grace and humility! He directly quotes another preacher, teacher, author, etc. A LOT throughout the book, which was not my cup of tea and made the writing a bit choppy in my opinion. BUT, overall worth the read and I’ve already identified areas of my life I can surrender more to the Lord and practices I can work on adding to my daily rhythms.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2025I found this book very easy to read though it will be much tougher to live. I think that is why Comer wrote it. There are clear practices laid out in this book that, if actually practiced, will help. I want to go through it with a friend again to help us both.
I was a little put off with the mystic side of some of his advice but appreciate has grounding in Scriptures.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2025John mark comer strikes again! This book is a beautiful culmination of practicing the way. I went to Bridgetown church during the practicing the way series and I am so glad the principals are being shared with the world. This is a must read and a page turner! I am very thankful for the dedication and research put in to make this as helpful and solid as it is
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- Gordon DickinsonReviewed in Canada on January 30, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful, clear, and engaging
One of the most clear and engaging books I’ve ever read about what it means to follow Jesus. Wholistic, relevant, and articulate - I wish my whole congregation would read it!
- Wolver ReneReviewed in Australia on August 25, 2024
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Following the example of how Jesus lived instead of how he died is what I've always believed about Jesus & the Teachings he left for his Desciples to teach on their journeys. Jesus's parables & the Buddha's Koans are comparable in their meanings & what they were pointing to. Buddha found the Truth where Jesus was seemingly destined to be a Great spirit & like Buddha a brilliant communicator & teacher to the people everywhere. Like how the Tibetans pick their Dali Lama Jesus was a great spirit that it seems many cultures knew was arriving & the reason I believe Jesus like Doubting Thomas who followed Jesus the Christ to India after the crucifixion was in India. Jesus was to learn scripture from all religions he thought could help his message, the truth as he seen & knew it. Jesus & the Buddha never wanted religions or to be worshipped. They led exceptional lives & wanted us all to as well like they did & in this we have the true meaning of Jesus's life & l will be a Buddha or a ♥️🙏
- ArendReviewed in the Netherlands on March 7, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute delight
I must say I'm a fanboy of JMC but with good reason.. the honesty with which he approaches the subject matter is refreshing.. no quick fixes from know it all guru.. but true christlike honesty and humility
If listened to most of the book twice on Audible.. some parts more.. and still decided to get the book as well.. a lot of the content needs in dept integration into my life.. It does align well with where I'm at in my current journey with Jesus..
The fact that every relationship requires proper maintenance.. also one with the Almighty Creator.. is not a very popular subject in the western Church.. but we all need to hear this.. and act on it like there's no tomorrow
ArendAn absolute delight
Reviewed in the Netherlands on March 7, 2024
If listened to most of the book twice on Audible.. some parts more.. and still decided to get the book as well.. a lot of the content needs in dept integration into my life.. It does align well with where I'm at in my current journey with Jesus..
The fact that every relationship requires proper maintenance.. also one with the Almighty Creator.. is not a very popular subject in the western Church.. but we all need to hear this.. and act on it like there's no tomorrow
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- Daniel DruryReviewed in Germany on January 10, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Modern insights into discipleship
It made me hungry to follow Jesus even more.
I read this with my wife. She read the German version - we really enjoyed this book.
- Saby JSReviewed in India on September 14, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Best one!
One of the best books I have read in ages! Love how well the writer takes us through the journey of being Jesus's disciples!