Missions as Fasting

"...I've always thought of missions as a fasting of many of the blessings in life.  When we normally fast - we abstain from food - something so seemingly essential to life - to remind us of what is even more essential - our relationship with Christ.  We fast because there is urgency of some other matter - more urgent than eating.  In missions, we fast the blessings of family, friends, and all the blessings and opportunities of life in the US - because there is something even more essential to life - our relationship to Christ whom we follow and seek to make known.  And we fast these blessings - because there is something more urgent than even our family and friends - the Gospel going to the perishing among the 2.5 billion who have little or no chance to hear the Gospel."

-Michael Oh