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I - I just dont understand why...
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we have a desire to grow in faith
For an authentic
Long lasting
Life shaaping relationship with Jesu
But we literally have no idea how to get there.
Most of us
For some it comes easily
For other we settle for something less than that
For some we give up on God
For others we struggle we wrestle and we wonder what we are doing wrong
I think we are looking for ways
Part of the problem is for years chirstians have been looking for ways to lower the bar to make it easier to belong in the church and rightly so
But as a causualty we tossed out things that have been foundational to discipleship and the Christian walk for centuries
In the church we called them disciplines or practices
Sometimes bc they are hard
Sometimes because they are strange
Sometimes because they were abused and misuesed
So for the month of October we are examining one of these ancient rythmns and practices a week.
And trying to get back to the Bible and relearn why they matter and how to incorporate them into our discipleship.
And asking the question do they have value today?
G - When it comes to Feasting and fasting Jesus ReSet the table
This week fasting and feasting
This has been a key tool in discipleship forever
-what it it?
Intro background/through xtian history
I was shocked to discover that xtians have done this forever...
Why?
Eating matters more than you think.
Believe it our not eating is a CONSTANT character in the Bible.
Trace the theme.)
If you read the Bible you realize eating and our human bodies actually matter quite a lot more than we want to believe.
It impacts you a lot more than you think.
Think about how you act when you are hungry, or eat the wrong thing.
You become a different person.
Eating is something you do multiple times a day and like anything else it can be for God's glory or not.
- The basics of Christian Assembly
If you asked the early church what was the most important thing in our church, the thing that you couldn't follow Jesus without.
They would not choose the musical instrument.
The building, The pastor, the pews, the stage the hymns, the announcments, or even the Bible itself.
They would say it is the TABLE the FEAST.
Background
42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
In fact it is so imporant check out acts 2
If you asked the early church what was the most important thing in our church, the thing that you couldn't follow Jesus without.
They would not choose the musical instrument.
The building, The pastor, the pews, the stage the hymns, the announcements, or even the Bible itself.
They would say it is the TABLE the FEAST.
Fasting and Feasting are meant to be RESPONSES to encounters with God
I was surprised by this b/c we tend to think of spiritual practices as the opposite.
We think about singing songs to experience God, or reading scripture to hear God’s voice, fasting to have this experience of God in hunger or perhaps to get God’s attention in prayer.
But the bible sees it the other way.
F/F are ALWAYS responses to God.
The Place of Fasting (Responding to Grave (serious) Enouncters)
Crossroads Esther - resolves to talk to the king on behalf of the Jewish people, knowing that she will likely be killed for speaking up.
Before her meeting she calls for a fast in the Jewish community
(Pit in your stomach)
Repentence - Joel.
How do you Return/repent - Fasting is a part of it
12 “Even now,” declares the LORD,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
13 Rend your heart
and not your garments.
Return to the LORD your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
and he relents from sending calamity.
14 Who knows?
He may turn and relent
and leave behind a blessing—
grain offerings and drink offerings
for the LORD your God.
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion,
declare a holy fast,
call a sacred assembly.
16 Gather the people,
consecrate the assembly;
bring together the elders,
gather the children,
those nursing at the breast.
Let the bridegroom leave his room
and the bride her chamber.
17 Let the priests, who minister before the LORD,
weep between the portico and the altar.
Let them say, “Spare your people, LORD.
Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn,
a byword among the nations.
Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’ ”
(Pit in your stomach)
Mourning - David for his enemies
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13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth
and humbled myself with fasting.
When my prayers returned to me unanswered,
14 I went about mourning
as though for my friend or brother.
I bowed my head in grief
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