Didache Chapter 8: On Fasting

About this episode

This episode discusses Didache chapter 8, focusing on the importance of fasting in Christian life.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we move into Didache chapter 8 and confront a discipline the modern church often sidelines: fasting. The Didache does not present fasting as spiritual cosplay or an optional upgrade for the unusually devoted. It treats it as an ordinary rhythm of Christian life, a practiced resistance against imitation religion, and a training ground for loyalty when obedience costs you something. We work through the opening verses of chapter 8 and the logic behind them. The ...

Topics covered

• fasting
• Christian discipline
• spiritual practices
• obedience
• modern church

Keywords

• Didache
• fasting
• Christian life
• spirituality
• obedience
• discipline

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Books & works: Didache

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