It was great to have award winning author, Tilly Dillehay as my guest on the podcast discussing food, health and spiritual fulfillment. We live in a food obsessed culture but there is a better way to enjoy all that God provides and live satisfied.

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BROKEN BREAD

How should broken people break bread?

For the Christian, fellowship must come before food. But no one wants to eat with people who would never touch that GMO-stuffed steak, with people who gorge themselves on Taco Bell Late Night Fourthmeals, with people who abhor a Hostess Twinkie, or with people who microwave beige-colored breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Tilly Dillehay believes the greatest threats to our dinner tables and potlucks and date nights go far beyond the nutrition label. She argues that Christians run into four pitfalls when it comes to food: Asceticism, Gluttony, Snobbery, and Apathy.

So, how should Christians eat? This is the question Tilly seeks to answer in her book, Broken Bread.

HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD

A healthy relationship with food starts by allowing God to be the one who completely satisfies us. When we use food to soothe our emotions or fill a void we are asking it to do what only Christ can. He alone is the Bread of Life. Only He can fill the emptiness inside our soul—which is the real part of us. Food can nourish the body, but only Jesus can heal and satisfy the soul. 

A healthy relationship with food for Christians is about honoring God by using food as a gift for nourishment, not as a source of control or emotional comfort, and can include viewing all foods as clean and permissible, as long as they are consumed with gratitude and self-control. This means approaching eating with gratitude, recognizing God as the provider, and stewarding one’s body as a temple. We are God’s temple.

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.” – 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

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Stay Encouraged, Leah