Transforming Mission Leadercast With Tim Bias & Sara Thomas

Episode 232 - The Means of Grace - Hope from Fasting

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Sinopsis

What's the most unfashionable spiritual practice today? If you said fasting, you’d be in good company. It’s the means of grace that many people have difficulty practicing.  One of the many reasons we find fasting difficult is the consumeristic culture we live in. We live in a world with short attention spans, and normalized consumption of social media, news, and anything on our mobile devices. Additionally, consumerism shows up in the instant gratification of goods and services. Abundance These examples point to fasting being counter-cultural in a world that is often surrounded by abundance. As a result, it’s possible to say, many of us are guilty of gluttony. Biblical Basis for Fasting In the Old Testament, fasting is done for primarily one reason: repentance for unfaithfulness. Sometimes it was individuals that fasted because of God’s judgment and at other times it was individuals (2 Sam 12:13-16, Nehemiah 9:1-2) Unfaithfulness isn’t the only reason for fasting in the Old Testament. Sometimes leaders would