This week, Pastor Shaq Hager begins our Lent series by talking through Isaiah 58 and the kind of fast that God desires. Many of us have been taught to engage the spiritual practice of fasting for the purpose of hearing God’s voice or seeking an answer to prayer. Yet, the kind of fast God desires for His people is a fast that draws them deeper into His own heart and His own way of living and being in the world. When we fast we can be shaped into people who live God’s mercy, compassion, and justice. We can be formed into people who are healers and prophets, who bind our neighbors’ wounds. What if we started thinking about fasting as a practice with communal rather than only individual implications.
*This sermon includes the song “Isaiah 58” by Urban Doxology featuring Amena Brown.