For one day a week over six weeks, we are inviting you to join us in a season of fasting.
We are hungry to respond to God’s invitation to step further into our call to be HIS church—a people who are playing our part in seeing our community meeting with Jesus and becoming more like him. We believe fasting is a way for us to turn our whole selves towards God and this invitation.
We also invite you to pray for—
The prodigals, the return of those who have walked out of relationship with Jesus, or are no longer part of a faith community, and
The salvation of the people we have been journeying with and long to see God break into their lives.
As we deprive ourselves of food we must feast on God. This is an important part of fasting—spend time in the word, in God’s presence and in worship.
Extra resources:
Scot McKnight explores the idea of "whole-body spirituality," in which fasting plays a central role.
This ancient practice, he says, doesn't make sense to most of us until we have grasped the importance of the body for our spirituality, until we can view it as a spiritual response to a sacred moment.
Fasting--simple, primitive, and ancient--still demonstrates a whole person's earnest need and hunger for the presence of God, just as it has in the lives of God's people throughout history.
Pastor of Bridgetown Church, Portland, John Mark Comer shares this great teaching on Fasting
In our hedonistic culture, most over-abused and under-used of all the practices of Jesus is fasting. So many people are confused over what fasting even is, much less the reasons we fast. In Part 1 of our series on fasting, we explore one of three reasons: to starve the flesh and feed the spirit. Fasting, it turns out, is about freedom.
Podcast on fasting by KXC on fasting