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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 Didache draws a clear boundary between performative spirituality and embodied discipline. It calls believers to fast, but not as theater. It also gives structure, setting fasting within a communal pattern that forms identity over time. This is not about earning favor. It is about alignment, retraining appetite, and learning to want God more than comfort.

As the conversation unfolds, we wrestle with why fasting has disappeared in so many Protestant spaces, and why early Christians treated it like normal Christianity rather than extreme Christianity. We talk about the temptation to make faith purely internal and private, the ways the body exposes what the heart is actually loyal to, and how fasting forces honesty. You find out quickly what rules you when food is not there to mute you.

This episode invites listeners to recover fasting as a discipline of allegiance. Not punishment. Not superstition. Not a badge. A deliberate weakening of the self so the will can be re-anchored to the Way of Life.

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