Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way.

This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon as a part of the fasting practice.

Portland is known all over the world as a food city. Come on.

People literally travel here from all over North America

on vacation just to eat.

The first time that I ever heard the word foodie

was when I moved into Portland.

In fact, I remember when I first moved here,

what shocked me was not the naked bike ride or the guy with bagpipes breathing fire or even that like

communism is still a thing that people are into. That was not what rocked my faith. What shocked me

coming from like a background where you know you were responsible with your money is

it's a weird you never it's a thing, don worry about it is how much money people spend

eating out all the time that are just remember I was like Gerald you spend how much

money like you eat out more than twice a year seriously like the Portland

thing is you live in this tiny little kind of cool but kind of ghetto apartment

with no furniture and and you drive like a 90s beat up sedan, preferably made by Subaru, maybe Toyota if you're like newer,

or you ride a bicycle.

And it's not because you don't have money, you have money.

It's because you blow all of your money on eating out.

And it's coffee and a pastry for breakfast and a food cart for lunch

and then drinks with colleagues after work.

And then you hit a new spot for dinner and then a little night cap somewhere,

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