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Episode 429: John Mark Comer on Spiritual Formation

That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs

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The Greatest Aache in the Human Heart Is Preunion With God

Early Christians developed a three stage spiritual formation process over the Christian life arc. The first stage was what they called purgation. They viewed it as an attempt to intentionally take on suffering in order to let Christ forge you, burn clean of you anything that cannot last into God's presence and into eternity. "The greatest ache in every human heart is preunion with God," he says.

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