Humility is an important virtue, and especially so in worship. The point of acts of worship--prayer, fasting, or charity--is to glorify God, not our own egos. Those who make a big public deal of their good deeds and acts of worship in order to look better in the eyes of others are hypocrites.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt.6.16&version=NIV
Topics: Worship, Ego, Fasting, Fast
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