Week Five: Hunger for Righteousness
Day 29: The Importance of Fasting
Reflecting and Recording
Wesley stood within the Roman Catholic/Anglican tradition with respect to fasting. What background do you have regarding fasting?
Wesley practiced fasting to an extreme time. Do you know of extreme or unusual practices regarding fasting?
Relating
As you prepare to study fasting this week, what are the major questions you have about it?
What experience do you have of it in your own life?
Fasting is not something I have done in relationship to food, but I have given up other things like TV or anything that has consumed my time and taken me away from spending time with God. The reason I have never given up food for fasting is because I am overweight and my intention would not have been on the focus of the Lord. Instead I would have used it as a tool to lose weight.
Day 27
The importance of fasting
1. Wesley stood within the Roman catholic/angelic in tradition with respect to fasting.
what background you have regarding fasting?
It was never brought up in any religion state. So as far as history of respective fasting, I don’t have one. However, I am familiar with the ideology of fasting. Because of the friends that I had when I was younger. Most of them were Catholic and follow this tradition very closely. Mostly it was related to food. Which I never really understood. Until I started researching after becoming baptized at 50. So my last seven years I’ve kind of done some search on it as to what it supposed to mean and what it…