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Krisdun
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Do our fellow Christians fast on Good Friday just as us Catholics do?
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amazingcatholic
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Anglicans do
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Tommy999
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The ones I know don’t fast — but some might but it’s not mandated — but some attend Good Friday service — usually around noon and may have a light lunch afterwards. The service is usually a somber occasion — and one of the few times where my church leadership openly discourages talking in the sanctuary before and after service, which I appreciate and wish they did all the time.
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ltwin
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If they tend to be liturgical, maybe. Baptists, Pentecostals and non-denominational evangelicals mostly wouldn’t. Pentecostals do fast, but there is no set time.
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CoffeeFanatic
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Pentecostals and Baptists don’t. If any of them do it’s because they individually choose to do so. Fasting isn’t a corporate thing such denominations engage in and is rarely something they promote for people to do on their own either. I’m sure they aren’t against fasting, but most don’t see the need for it.
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ltwin
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This isn’t true. Plenty of churches hold yearly fasts for the congregation as a whole to do together. And there is plenty of Pentecostal teaching on the spiritual benefits and importance of fasting.
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CoffeeFanatic
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I was raised in a Pentecostal denomination (Assemblies of God). Fasting was NEVER a thing when I was there (1976-1995).
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CoffeeFanatic
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That’s nice. They may be into it now. They do change things at times. I was also told that they don’t teach that the ‘initial evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues’ once by some AG guy on-line a year or two ago- yet it used to be drilled into us back in the day. As I said- individuals can fast if they want- but we were NEVER taught to fast corporately. It NEVER happened when I was growing up. I was third generation- grandfather was a pastor and had been the state superintendent- grandparents and a parent all went to AG associated bible colleges in Springfield. Went to camp every year, went on AIM trips, the whole nine yards. We never fasted.
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po18guy
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I find this rather strange. Fasting, prayer and almsgiving is a very explicit teaching, both in the old testament (i.e. Tobit 12) and new (Matthew 6).
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ltwin
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It’s still official teaching, and every ordained minister affirms the belief when they do their credential renewals.
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Bithynian
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This is my general observation as well. Some Reformed para-church organisations (e.g. Gospel Coalition) have been encouraging people to fast during the current pandemic.
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ltwin
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CoffeeFanatic’s experience is her experience, and I don’t doubt she’s telling the truth. I was also raised in a Pentecostal church, and I’ve also studied the history of Pentecostalism. Just saying that fasting has always been part of Pentecostal belief and practice. This journal article might be informative https://www.pharosjot.com/uploads/7/1/6/3/7163688/pharosjot_art_2_vol_96_(2015).pdf. The abstract states:
An examination of early Pentecostal periodical literature from 1906 to 1915 shows that Pentecostals practiced both individual and corporate fasting, but there is no mention of universally established fast days. Fasting was viewed through the theological lens of the Fivefold Gospel, which was the core belief system of the movement. Therefore, fasting was valuable particularly in preparing seekers for the experiences of sanctification, Spirit baptism, and divine healing. Fasting was generated by affectivity – the seeker’s passionate pursuit of God and deep-seated love for others, whether the other be sinner or believer. Pentecostals practiced a kind of fasting that might be described as crisis oriented fasting in which fasting was joined with prayer as a means of appealing to God for the outpouring of God’s grace in identifiable acts of revival, salvation, sanctification, healing, and Spirit baptism either for oneself or for others.
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ltwin
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Everyone should fast, but there doesn’t necessarily need to be a universal time for everyone to fast.
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StudentMI
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Sort of related. My dad, as a Lutheran, would give something up for Lent. It wasn’t a required thing though. He’s now converting to Catholicism.
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Symphorian
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Church of England days of fasting or abstinence:
The forty days of Lent.
The Ember days at the four seasons.
The three Rogation days.
All Fridays in the year except Christmas day.
In addition to these are the Vigils of certain major Holy Days including those of the BVM and the Apostles.
The forty days of Lent.
The Ember days at the four seasons.
The three Rogation days.
All Fridays in the year except Christmas day.
In addition to these are the Vigils of certain major Holy Days including those of the BVM and the Apostles.
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Peebo
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While I’m not sure about fasting…but after living here in the US for 20 years I still find it strange that Good Friday isn’t a federal holiday…a handful of states do have it as a state holiday…most Christian countries celebrate Easter as a four day break…Good Friday through Easter Monday
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