Introduction
The self-discipline of fasting is a practise used throughout the bible, from the Old Testament to the New Testament, and is continued in Christians’ lives today. Fasting is important, as seen by Jesus’s example, to understand that God is our eternal source of life.
Summarise your original understanding of the discipline before the course started
My understanding of fasting was to give up a necessity, such as food, in order to remind myself to pray and hunger after God. Whether for an answer to a prayer, new vision, understanding or even just desiring to be closer to God. I had the mindset that fasting was mainly a tool to use in times of need. I saw it as more of a corporate activity than a personal one.
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Fasting is defined as one meal partnered with two smaller meals a day, and must be done twice a year during Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. However can be done more often according to the individual’s initiative. Fasting is broken by eating between meals and by drinks which may be considered food. Similarly, Catholics take part in abstinence of meat every Friday of the year (depends whether the particular church enforces this), from the age of fourteen. Abstinence of meat or a different product of choice is also done during the month of lent, which is purposed for the commemoration of Jesus’s …show more content…
Letting go of distractions and taking worship to a more intimate level to seek his will through self-denial. Hence, instead of eating such time is used for prayer. Fasting is also something that can be done regularly and personally, not always in collaboration with others and done during particular church seasons. The idea of fasting during Lent was something I had never considered as I saw it as a Catholic practise. But now I see it as an opportunity to fast in order to remember Jesus in my relationship with
The self-discipline of fasting is a practise used throughout the bible, from the Old Testament to the New Testament, and is continued in Christians’ lives today. Fasting is important, as seen by Jesus’s example, to understand that God is our eternal source of life.
Summarise your original understanding of the discipline before the course started
My understanding of fasting was to give up a necessity, such as food, in order to remind myself to pray and hunger after God. Whether for an answer to a prayer, new vision, understanding or even just desiring to be closer to God. I had the mindset that fasting was mainly a tool to use in times of need. I saw it as more of a corporate activity than a personal one.
A Significant Christian …show more content…
Fasting is defined as one meal partnered with two smaller meals a day, and must be done twice a year during Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. However can be done more often according to the individual’s initiative. Fasting is broken by eating between meals and by drinks which may be considered food. Similarly, Catholics take part in abstinence of meat every Friday of the year (depends whether the particular church enforces this), from the age of fourteen. Abstinence of meat or a different product of choice is also done during the month of lent, which is purposed for the commemoration of Jesus’s …show more content…
Letting go of distractions and taking worship to a more intimate level to seek his will through self-denial. Hence, instead of eating such time is used for prayer. Fasting is also something that can be done regularly and personally, not always in collaboration with others and done during particular church seasons. The idea of fasting during Lent was something I had never considered as I saw it as a Catholic practise. But now I see it as an opportunity to fast in order to remember Jesus in my relationship with