Fast Decisions (9)
Series: Abiding Life
Joey Rodgers
Matthew 6:16-18
DYK - according to NPR's food show, The Salt - the avg. American male eats 1,996 lbs. (almost 1 ton) of food every year - that's b/w 5-6 lbs. of food a day. If you do the math - if this man lives 70 yrs - he would've eaten nearly 140k lbs. of food thru-out his life. That's the equivalent of eating (2) motor coach tour buses or (12) full-grown male elephants - adding new meaning to the question - how do you eat an elephant - (1) bite at a time.
Food. it's a topic that's often not very far from our thoughts. DYK the avg. person spends 53 min. a day preparing food and 85 min. a day eating it - that's 2 hr and 16 min. focused on food. Many of us here already know where/what we're going to be eating after church today. Why? B/c food is never far from our minds.
Believe it or not, God has much to say on the topic of food b/c it plays a major role in our spiritual lives. In Scripture, we're encouraged to share meals as an act of fellowship - yet we're told not to be gluttons. Most of our Jewish/Christian celebrations include a special meal (although I still haven't figured out why so many people eat ham at Easter).
As we continue our series on abiding in Christ, today I want to discuss the little-known, and even less practiced, spiritual activity of fasting!
Fasting is a spiritual discipline we know little about and practice even less. We know a lot about feasting, but fasting... not so much. If we're all being honest, we'd all rather feast than fast; after all, there's some pretty yummy food in our world. Yet, if we want to be on the correct side of Scripture (and the abiding life), then we need to know about and practice fasting.
In its most basic form - fasting is abstaining from food for spiritual reasons. It's the spiritual discipline of setting aside food to pursue God to align our lives more closely to His heart so that we might experience spiritual breakthroughs a ...
Series: Abiding Life
Joey Rodgers
Matthew 6:16-18
DYK - according to NPR's food show, The Salt - the avg. American male eats 1,996 lbs. (almost 1 ton) of food every year - that's b/w 5-6 lbs. of food a day. If you do the math - if this man lives 70 yrs - he would've eaten nearly 140k lbs. of food thru-out his life. That's the equivalent of eating (2) motor coach tour buses or (12) full-grown male elephants - adding new meaning to the question - how do you eat an elephant - (1) bite at a time.
Food. it's a topic that's often not very far from our thoughts. DYK the avg. person spends 53 min. a day preparing food and 85 min. a day eating it - that's 2 hr and 16 min. focused on food. Many of us here already know where/what we're going to be eating after church today. Why? B/c food is never far from our minds.
Believe it or not, God has much to say on the topic of food b/c it plays a major role in our spiritual lives. In Scripture, we're encouraged to share meals as an act of fellowship - yet we're told not to be gluttons. Most of our Jewish/Christian celebrations include a special meal (although I still haven't figured out why so many people eat ham at Easter).
As we continue our series on abiding in Christ, today I want to discuss the little-known, and even less practiced, spiritual activity of fasting!
Fasting is a spiritual discipline we know little about and practice even less. We know a lot about feasting, but fasting... not so much. If we're all being honest, we'd all rather feast than fast; after all, there's some pretty yummy food in our world. Yet, if we want to be on the correct side of Scripture (and the abiding life), then we need to know about and practice fasting.
In its most basic form - fasting is abstaining from food for spiritual reasons. It's the spiritual discipline of setting aside food to pursue God to align our lives more closely to His heart so that we might experience spiritual breakthroughs a ...
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