That's What She Said

John the Baptist is in prison, and Jesus defends him. Plus, JC has a rep of his own: glutton, drunkard. Are people never satisfied? 

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We’re beginning a new series! For the first several weeks after Pentecost, we’ll remember Jesus at his badass best. These stories from the middle of Luke’s gospel span the range of his astonishing power – to heal, exorcise, raise the dead, calm the sea, and put people in their place with only his razor-sharp rhetoric. Bring it, Jesus. Tonight, we examine Jesus’ encounters with two people on opposite ends of the privilege spectrum: a Roman centurion, and a widowed woman from Nain.

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“Participation in the church’s discernment of our next steps together.” The early church received the lavish outpouring of the Holy Spirit and began to prophesy – that is, they found language to articulate what God was doing and was about to do among them, and in the world God still loves. We, too, have received the Spirit bountifully; this puts us in a state of wondering, watching, discerning, and declaring what God is up to these days, and next. We’ll meet the Holy Spirit of the living Christ.

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The early church leaders often found themselves in trouble, including physical peril and actual bodily harm. While they could (sometimes) heal others, they could not always liberate and restore themselves (like Jesus?). The kindness of others – the wound-washing, the meal-sharing, the sanctuary of homes – was integral to their evangelistic success. All they had to do was receive it. We’ll meet Paul (again); Silas; an enslaved, fortune-telling girl; her slaveholder; a Philippian jailer; and the jailer’s household. 

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“Presence – physical and emotional – at gatherings of the church.” The early church grew and spread insofar as people gathered to be the church. There were no spaces designated “church”; there were only people hungry for the gospel, prayerful for help, eager to share their homes. Galileo Church, in some sense, only exists in those hours when we are gathered, in the BRB or the taco bar or the living rooms of our Lydias. We’ll meet Paul, Timothy, the apparitional Macedonian man, and Lydia. Featuring guest preacher Ashley Dargai!

“Extension of the church’s welcome to friends, neighbors, strangers, and enemies.” The early church churned on one central problem for a very long time: how could the God of Israel, and Israel’s Messiah, be for Gentiles, too? For the very people they had defined themselves against for generations? The church today keeps asking: who are our “Gentiles”? the ones who are not like us, but for whom God has already prepared a welcome we are meant to embody? We’ll meet Peter, some “circumcised believers,” Cornelius, and a bunch of “uncircumcised believers.”

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“Cultivation of spiritual gifts for the life of our church and community.” The early church included powerhouses who made big speeches, healed many, and converted the masses. But it also celebrated the quiet beloveds who found daily ways to use their covert gifts to bring God’s world closer to God’s dream. We’ll meet Tabitha, also called Dorcas; and Simon the Tanner.

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“Contemplation of our baptism, past or future.” The early church encountered people who were formerly thought to be outside of God’s circle of mercy and welcome, and recognized the expansion of that circle in Jesus the Christ to include even those who suffered cultural shaming. Baptism is the sign of the total, unreserved, you’re-soaking-in-it “yes” (or yaaas!) of God to those who seek God’s heart. We’ll meet Philip and the eunuch from Ethiopia. Laura Jean Allen, special guest preacher

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“The sharing of material resources to further the church’s goals.” The early church had a way of being that required decisions about money, and the relationship of your money (singular) to our money (plural). There was no requirement for how or how much to share, but there was an expectation of transparency in our financial decision-making, both individually and collectively. We’ll meet Barnabas, Peter, Ananias, and Sapphira.

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This Easter Sunday we take a look at the resurrection of Jesus (shocker, right?) through the lens of the emotional labor done by the women in the story.

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