to encourage fasting is being promoted by Bill Bright, who publicized his goal of encouraging two million American Christians to join him in fasting and praying for America and the fulfillment of the Great Commission by the year 2000.4 Bright has been sponsoring “Fasting and Prayer” meetings each November since 1995, encouraging Christian leaders to join him in this vision. Although Bright’s numerical goal does not seem to have been realized, this renewed emphasis on fasting has been spreading through