Fasting 04: To Stand with the Poor

Rule of Life

Practicing the Way

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Does a practice like fasting matter in the face of injustice and evil in the world? Can fasting really change any of it? If so, how?

For the fourth week of our Fasting series, pastor and writer, Tyler Staton joins John Mark Comer, Yinka Dawson, and Jarin Oda to talk about three key characteristics of biblical justice, the differences between standing for and with the poor, and how fasting is a powerful way to empathize with and intercede for our neighbors in need.

This podcast accompanies the Fasting Practice, developed by Practicing the Way. Thanks to the generosity of The Circle, all Practices are free. To learn more about The Circle or to run a Practice with your church, community, or small group, visit www.practicingtheway.org.

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0:00.0	The scripture says of Jesus, we have a great high priest who can empathize with our weaknesses.
0:08.6	And so one way that I become like Jesus is I willingly discomfort my body in a way that other people
0:16.4	are unwillingly discomforted in their body. And the reason I do that is so that I can grow in empathy.
0:24.7	It's going to be really hard for me to love the poor the way Jesus loves the poor if there's
0:30.4	not a sacrificial practice by which I'm training myself to love the poor.
0:46.7	You're listening to the Rule of Life podcast by practicing the way.
0:51.4	In each season, we explore an ancient practice from the way of Jesus and its relevance for the modern era.
1:16.9	This is Season 3, Fasting. Welcome to the Rule of Life podcast.
1:20.0	This is episode four of the Fasten series.
1:21.8	I'm here with John Mark.
1:22.7	Hello, Yenka.
1:23.5	Hello. Hello.
1:24.1	Hello.
1:24.7	And later on, we'll get to have Talis Dayton.
1:27.1	Come on. Yeah, absolutely. And we've been. And later on, we'll get to have Talis Dayton. Come on.
1:27.8	Yeah, absolutely.
1:28.8	And we've been getting to chat about some of the kind of anchors reasons that we are fasting or why we fast.
1:35.5	And we'll get to talk today about standing with the poor as one of the themes of why we fast.
1:40.9	So, John Mark, would you give us a summary of episode four?
1:43.4	Yeah, to start off,
1:44.5	I open with a few statistics on poverty and hunger, both here in the U.S. and around the world,
1:50.1	and then I do a little comparing contrast with food waste, which is fascinating. You know,
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