Day 34 : Fasting Today
Reflecting and Reporting
Have any of your notions of fasting changed as a result of exploring it this week? If so, write down the ones most important to you. What ideas do you have for restoring fasting to the whole church?
What might your group, class, or congregation do to renew fasting among the people?
Relating
Since fasting has been neglected spiritual discipline, perhaps the best act of
relating would be to commit yourself to further study of this topic.
Begin with the Bible and explore Old and New Testament passages where
fasting is mentioned. Then move to books such as Richard Foster's
Celebration of Discipline, David Smith’s Fasting : A Neglecting Discipline, or
Arthur Wallis’s God’s Chosen Fast.
Day 34
1. Have any of your notions so fast changed as a result of exploring it this week? If so, right down the ones most important to you.
What ideas do you have for restoring fasting? Did the whole church?
Oh, I still believe that fasting is more than just giving up food. It’s giving up something that you would replace with God time. So if there be food replaced with God, so be it. If it be TV for God, so be it, it could be anything placed by God and it would be good. Bird is good to give up and sacrifice to be with God. To build that relationship that you have with him. And make…