The Witness Practice: A Four-Session Guide to Bear Witness to the Good News of Jesus in Our Cultural Moment - Softcover

Comer, John Mark; Practicing The Way

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0593603419 ISBN 13: 9780593603413

Publisher: WaterBrook, 2026

Synopsis

Discover how to share the good news of Jesus with those around you in this guide from New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way.

In our culture we are often encouraged to keep our beliefs to ourselves, but the practice of sharing the good news of Jesus is both transformative and necessary. The Witness Practice offers a practical, accessible approach to incorporating this vital spiritual discipline into your daily life. Designed to be used with four engaging video sessions freely available online, this guide provides spiritual exercises, reflection questions, Scripture readings, and additional resources to help you and your community. 

This course guide will equip you to experience the power of witnessing as you learn to:

• Open up your life to those around you, sharing the good news of Jesus in ordinary, everyday ways
• Join God in what he is already doing in the lives of people you care about  
• Practice genuine, meaningful hospitality that invites guests into God's community of love
• Attune your heart to the promptings of the Holy Spirit in your interactions with others

Discover in the practice of witness a deep life in Jesus that can only be experienced when we generously share it with others.

About this title

About the Author

John Mark Comer is the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including Practicing the Way, which was named Christian Book of the Year by the ECPA, and The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, which has sold more than a million copies and been translated into over twenty languages. He is a pastor and the founder of Practicing the Way, an organization working to see the renewal of apprenticeship to Jesus in our time. The Comers live in the Santa Monica Mountains just outside Los Angeles.

Practicing the Way helps churches form lifelong apprentices of Jesus. Our free resources are used by thousands of communities and pastors worldwide to help people be with Jesus, become like him, and do as he did. Our work is possible thanks to a group of monthly givers called The Circle and other generous givers.

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Welcome

There is an unspoken principle that we all intuitively live by: Good news is meant to be shared. Consider for a moment—what is usually the very first thing we do with good news like landing a new job, getting into the college we wanted, or discovering an incredible restaurant? Naturally, we want to share it with others—especially those closest to us. Yet, for many of us, this isn’t always our felt experience with our own faith, and for good reason.

Every day, we are being bombarded with signals from our surrounding culture to “keep our beliefs to ourselves.” There is a pronounced allergy—even hostility—in the post-Christian West toward any claims of capital T truth. In our time, it might be acceptable to believe a particular way of life is best for you, but it’s problematic to suggest that way of life is best for everyone. This can all lead to a very private way of following Jesus that, in belief, is “good news for all people” but in practice, just becomes “good news for me.” Yet, in the midst of this, Jesus’ invitation to witness to him has not expired—it remains just as relevant to modern apprentices as it was to its original hearers. For the last two millennia, followers of Jesus have dared to ask the question: How do we witness to the good news of Jesus in this particular moment? Through this Practice, we want to explore that same question for our time.

Over the next several weeks, we will set aside time to explore how Jesus himself entered into witness—his mission, motivation, and method for sharing the good news—to see our compassion grow for the lost, to extend relationship around our tables, and to form words and a way of life in community that witness to the gospel. Now, this kind of witness will not just happen—it will require risk and take practice. But if we say yes to this way of relating to the gospel and those around us, we can experience the deep life in Jesus that can only truly be discovered when we generously share it with others.

Welcome to the Practice of Witness.

Edition details

• Publisher: WaterBrook
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593603419
• ISBN 13: 9780593603413
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128