Offering | Fasting E1
John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Why should we fast? John Mark outlines the history of fasting in the Christian tradition, and argues that we don't fast to bio-hack our way to holiness, but rather to expose our weakness where God meets us.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 6v16-18
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast. I'm Strawn Coleman, your host and part of the teaching team here at practicing the way. |
| 0:12.0 | Each week on this show, we share a teaching from John Mark |
| 0:15.2 | or other trusted voices in the formation space and it's great to have you with us. |
| 0:30.0 | Today we begin a new season on a vital yet challenging practice in our formation journey. fasting. |
| 0:31.8 | In this opening teaching, John Mark introduces us to fasting in Jesus' ministry and the early church |
| 0:37.6 | and gives us a vision for the beautiful ancient biblical practice of offering our bodies to God. |
| 0:45.0 | As you listen, you may like to ask yourself, |
| 0:48.0 | what's my current relationship to fasting in this season of my life? |
| 0:53.0 | Here's John Mark. |
| 0:56.0 | My name is John Mark. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm a teacher in residence here and a few times a year in this season of our life together, |
| 1:02.0 | we take on a practice from the life and |
| 1:05.8 | the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. I read yesterday on the Sabbath this |
| 1:09.6 | beautiful line in Mark chapter 4 where Jesus said, my family, my brothers and sisters, |
| 1:15.2 | are those who hear the word of God |
| 1:17.9 | and put it into practice. |
| 1:21.7 | And we do a lot of hearing the word of God so to speak in particular on our Sunday times together. |
| 1:28.0 | But really it's Monday through Saturday and it's around tables, not sagesages that we put it into practice. |
| 1:35.0 | So in the fall we covered prayer and next up on the docket is fasting. |
| 1:39.0 | Now I know you all woke up this morning and the first thought in your consciousness was will somebody please teach me about fasting |
| 1:47.6 | The theology the history the practice of it. I know it's just like we we want you to know that we hear you the people all right we we |
| 1:55.9 | hear you and here we are no a very serious level we are in Lent we're in this |
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