He Refreshes My Soul | Why Do Christians Fast?

Humans are unities of mind, body, and soul. One of the traditional God’s people have connected those together is by fasting. 

Scot McKnight defines fasting as, “Fasting is a person’s whole-body, natural response to life’s serious or grievous sacred moments.” When we encounter the kinds of moments we often do in this world that, as the Apostle Paul puts it in Romans 8, is “in bondage” and “groaning,” we express our response to God in our souls and bodies. Fasting has a range of uses in the Christian life, and as we walk with the Shepherd it’s a way to walk with him with all of who we are—mind, body, and spirit engaged in spiritual purpose. In this sermon Pastor Joel preaches on all this and more.