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The Community Practice: A Four-Session Guide to Cultivating Community in the Way of Jesus
In a lonely, fractured culture, Jesus offers a new kind of family. Discover the communal Way of Jesus through this guide from New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way.
Despite the unprecedented connectivity of the modern era, our time is marked by isolation, transience, and superficiality. But Jesus invites his followers into genuine relationships, not just around a stage, but around a table—a place that offers intimacy, joy, healing, and commitment.
This Companion Guide to the Community Practice from Practicing the Way offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, and guided readings. The Community Practice features four sessions designed to be run with your community and is available online for free.
This guide will help
Build rhythms of intentional connection with othersCreate safe spaces in which to share your joys and sorrowsConfess your brokenness and begin healingDevelop committed relationships that grow in mature love
Living in community in our time of radical individualism is not always easy—but it’s beautiful, opening us to healing, happiness, and love.
Despite the unprecedented connectivity of the modern era, our time is marked by isolation, transience, and superficiality. But Jesus invites his followers into genuine relationships, not just around a stage, but around a table—a place that offers intimacy, joy, healing, and commitment.
This Companion Guide to the Community Practice from Practicing the Way offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, and guided readings. The Community Practice features four sessions designed to be run with your community and is available online for free.
This guide will help
Build rhythms of intentional connection with othersCreate safe spaces in which to share your joys and sorrowsConfess your brokenness and begin healingDevelop committed relationships that grow in mature love
Living in community in our time of radical individualism is not always easy—but it’s beautiful, opening us to healing, happiness, and love.
128 pages, Paperback
Published August 5, 2025
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About the author
John Mark Comer
47 books4,535 followersJohn 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.
He's also the founder of Practicing the Way, a simple, beautiful way to integrate spiritual formation into your church or small group. After serving as the pastor for teaching and vision at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon, for nearly two decades, John Mark and his family now reside in California, where he serves as a teacher in residence at Vintage Church LA.
He's also the founder of Practicing the Way, a simple, beautiful way to integrate spiritual formation into your church or small group. After serving as the pastor for teaching and vision at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon, for nearly two decades, John Mark and his family now reside in California, where he serves as a teacher in residence at Vintage Church LA.
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January 19, 2026
This was a great book, full of good ideas for creating and sustaining relationships.
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