[Kiwi Christian]

Please post your thoughts on personal Christian fasting. Do you do it? If so, why? Do you believe every Christian should practise it?

The only time I practised fasting was during 1998 when my pastor challenged the church to do it once every month for one year in conjunction with prayers for a new church building. The church got it's building but a number of families left the church half way through the project for one reason or another.

Fasting has always been a grey area to me, the only time I see it clearly instructed in the NT is where a Christian husband and wife are told to do it in 1 Corinthians 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.