Eating as an Act of Worship Ministries: Transforming Families through Health and Fitness

Faith-based organizations are using fitness and health as an act of worship to help transform the lives of families in their communities. Learn how these ministries are using nutrition, exercise, and spiritual guidance to promote better health.

Eating as an Act of Worship Ministries is a family-oriented organization that aims to transform families through biblical principles of health and fitness. Join us to learn how eating and drinking for the glory of God can lead to a long, abundant life together.
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Eating as an Act of Worship Ministries (EAW Ministries) is a family oriented organization. Although we initially taught the Biblical principles regarding the body, dieting, exercising, and maintaining a healthy body to individuals who were looking for a solution to their issue with weight, we have matured into a ministry that transforms not just those dealing with obesity but also those battling eating disorders. Moreover, entire households are becoming healthy and fit instead of just one person within it. Our adult classes were once filled with women who asked to be taught to eat and drink for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31).  Now wives are accompanied by their husbands, children by their parents, and even those who are dating attend EAW Ministries Health and Fitness Classes together.

Family fitness is an important part of Christianity because it is a major component of the abundant life Christ promised believers (John 10:10). An abundant life is not one filled with material things that you are too fat, too sick, or prematurely dead to enjoy. Abundant living is, first and foremost, experiencing true life in the Spirit, and you cannot attain true spiritual life unless you are reborn into the Spirit of God. Once that happens, then your mind can be renewed to God’s perspective, and you will desire to obey His command to take care of and to honor God with your body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit (Romans 12:2, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20).

But God is not the only person you should stay healthy for. You should also endeavor to be in optimal health for the sake of your family. Although death is inevitable, Jesus came that we would have abundant life (John 10:10). An abundant life is a long one filled with the love and joy of your family. When a loved one gets sick and dies prematurely due to obesity related diseases such as heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes, the entire family suffers not just the person diagnosed with the illness.

For example, leaving a career you enjoy to provide full time care to an overweight parent who is paralyzed on one side due to a stroke and can no longer take care of himself is not abundant living. Being unable to travel the world with your husband after retirement because he needs frequent dialysis treatments is not abundant living. Burying your thirty-six (36) year old child who died from a massive heart attack is not abundant living.

Eating and drinking healthy foods and beverages together as a family for the glory of God significantly reduces the chances of those things happening to you and your loved ones. Husbands exercising together with their wives and parents walking with their children instead of their dogs after dinner not only makes a long, abundant life together more likely, but it also strengthens family bonds.  Without the distractions of the television, internet, video games, and phones, you give your spouse and children what they really want and need, more of the precious, limited time you have been given together.

What has been missing in your marriage just might be rekindled. The child that will not talk to you just might open up and invite you into his world, but first you must be an obedient child of God and invite Him and His Will for your eating and drinking habits into your world. He is waiting for the invitation to use you as the catalyst to change the destiny of your entire family. If you want God to transform you and your family from fat and sickly to healthy and fit, purchase your copies of the Eating as an Act of Worship Workbook and the Eating as an Act of Worship Teacher’s Edition online today at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.com. In the books, you will learn the biblical principles regarding the body, dieting, exercising, and maintaining a healthy body for the glory of God. Read our weekly blog for motivation to stay healthy and fit through Christ.  Follow us daily on Facebook, Threads, LinkedIn, and Pinterest for recipes, and diet and exercise tips. Tune in to our syndicated radio show on iTunes, Spotify, The Narrative Matters, StudioW Buzz Radio Station, and Victory KVDW 100.9 FM, 95.3 FM, and 1530 AM in Little Rock, Arkansas for interviews and health and fitness trends. Lastly, make your tax-deductible donation to Eating as an Act of Worship Ministries at www.eatingasanactofworshipministries.org!