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John Mark ComerThe Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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Part 2, Chapter 5 Summary & Analysis: “The Secret of the Easy Yoke”
In his proposed solution to the disease of hurry, Comer now comes to his central thesis: The ultimate answer is found in following the way of Jesus. Comer presents Jesus in his role as a wandering Jewish rabbi, a teacher who would gather a community of talmidim (traditionally translated as “disciples”) around him, to learn from his teachings and follow his way of life. Comer, following Dallas Willard, suggests that a better translation of the idea behind the word talmidim would be “apprentices,” which underscores the fact that Jesus’s followers were not just meant to learn spiritual doctrines from his teachings, but to learn how to live and act in the events of one’s daily life.
Comer summarizes the goal of being an apprentice of Jesus in three steps: “1. Be with Jesus. 2. Become like Jesus. 3. Do what he would do if he were you” (77). Rather than describing the traditional Christian idea of “salvation” as simply a spiritual transformation, Comer suggests that it ought to be read as a healing of one’s whole self, which necessarily includes all the practical realities of daily life.
