buddy dixon asks what would happen if we fasted from public worship.. would we give up on our obsession with numbers?
“You mean you go to church every Sunday?” The assumption being that commitment to Christianity involves first, foremost and (this is my thesis) simply the attendance of a new meeting – “church” on Sunday morning.
Here, “Christianity” is reduced to yet another extra-curricular activity. It is like community league soccer, gymnastics or guitar lessons.
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Think about the discipline of fasting. Classically, it involves giving up something, good, healthy and indispensable for life – food – for a certain amount of time in order to connect to God in a new way. A fast is about abstaining from the necessary to reconnect to the eternal. A fast shakes up the fast-er , often providing vital re-orientation and spiritual clarity.
