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Health & Fitness
Eating as an Act of Worship Ministries
G impacted. On the contrary, tion swell with sin, and
luttony is tradition-
ally thought of in
most of the affluent countries
gluttony is a physical man-
terms of excessive
in the world are experiencing
eating, and that is
place spiritually in the sin-
one way the Bible defines the same problem. However, ifestation of what takes
it’s not a new issue. The Bible
gluttony (Proverbs 23:20 clearly states that gluttony ful society.
NKJV). However, God's Word has taken hold of entire soci-
also teaches us that gluttony eties in the past. “As one of Now that God has shined
includes a pattern of self- their own prophets has said, the light of His word on
gratification, or rather, grati- ‘Cretans are always liars, evil your sin, you should con-
fying the lust of your flesh. beasts, lazy gluttons.’” (Titus fess it and repent. Then
If you're honest with your- 1:12 Berean Study Bible). Ti- the Holy Spirit will empow-
self, the truth is you have de- tus 1:12 teaches us that glut- er you to do what you have
veloped a habit or pattern of tony is a symptom of a socie- been unable to do for your-
excessively eating unhealthy ty's moral decay. Like the self, succeed where so
foods and beverages as a re- Cretan society described in many others have failed!
sult of becoming entangled Titus, we have failed to follow
with the sin of gluttony. In the example of Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 21:18-21, the 21 by “putting away the evil-
Bible teaches us that the doers.” Instead, we have em-
stubborn and rebellious glut- braced their stubborn and re-
ton was stoned to death "so bellious ways and adopted a
that all Israel would hear and gluttonous lifestyle as an ac-
fear," thereby stopping sin in ceptable way of life.
its tracks before it could
spread to the rest of the Jew- Accordingly, as an individual
ish society. In other words, gets fatter due to his or her Workbook & Teacher’s Editions
the path to permanent, sus- gluttonous lifestyle, societies Available on Amazon.com
tained weight loss and overall as a whole also get fatter as a Ann Wooten-Taylor is
health and fitness begins result of collectively gratify- the C.E.O. of Eating as
with repentance. Refusing to ing the flesh instead of living an Act of Worship Min-
repent results in the same in accordance to God's Word. istries. The ministry
began as a result of her
fate the stubborn and rebel- To put it another way, the deliverance from obesi-
lious glutton suffered, an ear- more we, as a society, rebel ty, and she has been
ly and unnecessary death. against God and disobey His teaching others the Christian weight loss
commandments, the more principles she learned since 2012. Un-
Notwithstanding, obesity is saturated in sin our country, like many Christian weight loss classes,
the EAW class is not a forum where
not just an epidemic that af- and increasingly, the rest of individuals come together, say a prayer,
fects individuals. Moreover, the world becomes. Conse- and then have a workout session.
the United States is not the quently, like a person’s body
only nation the epidemic has swells with fat, so does a na-
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