The Fasting Practice by John Mark Comer
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About
Fasting is going without food for a set amount of time to awaken our body and soul to our deep hunger and need for God. It’s one of the most powerful — and neglected — of all of Jesus’ practices.
What to expect:
Each Practice comes with four session videos, weekly exercises and readings, and additional resources to help your group create life-changing daily rhythms as you apprentice under Jesus together. The sessions are about 30 minutes long and include time for group discussion at the beginning.
Our Practices are perfect to use with small groups or to run course-style with a larger group, but they can also be modified for a churchwide Sunday teaching series, small cohorts, and many other contexts.
Week by Week:
Session 01: To Offer Ourselves to God
- Very few modern Western followers of Jesus fast. But through the history of the Church, it was considered just as central as reading the Bible or gathering weekly. Fasting is one of the best disciplines we have to reintegrate our mind to our body and offer our whole selves to God in surrender.
Session 02: To Grow in Holiness
- Fasting has many physical benefits for our bodies that mirror how it benefits our souls — our whole person. As we grow in our theology of the body, we learn how the fight for holiness involves our whole selves, including our bodies
Session 03: To Amplify Our Prayers
- All through the library of Scripture, fasting is a powerful aid and amplifier to prayer. When God’s people fast and pray, miracles happen, again and again.
Session 04: To Stand With the Poor
- Fasting is not only about ourselves. It’s also a vehicle for biblical justice, for remembering the needs of our neighbors near and far. For acting on those needs, standing against evil while standing for God’s Kingdom
*Group Leader Note: To get started with The Fasting Practice, click RUN COURSE or LOG IN, and create a free account. Once you have an account, clicking the RUN COURSE button will bring you to your dashboard page, which gives you the option to create a group and invite your group members to view the videos from their own device. Each group member will also gain access to the downloadable guides and extra resources.