Prayer for the Co-Conspiracy

On Sunday 12/6/2020, we opened our Covenant of Co-Conspiracy to folx who weren’t with us last Pentecost, and didn’t want to wait till next Pentecost to say “yes” to Galileo Church and our missional priorities. Apprentice evangelist Remi Shores led us in this prayer:

Oh God of universes and galaxies and orbits of planets, God of ecologies and economies and households, God of churches and families and relationships, we know that your co-conspiracy is so much bigger than us.

Bigger than this barn, bigger than this livestream, bigger than this denomination, this white/European understanding of the Gospel, this language, this religion.

We also know that you, God who conspires with angels and planets and all the systems you created, are also the God of small conspiracies. Since the very earliest memories or our very oldest ancestors in faith, you have conspired with individuals, couples, and families. With scandalous specificity, you have invited your people to conspire with you.

God of baptism, of prophecy, of G-groups that meet in Zooms and (someday) living rooms, God of covenant, stay with us in this covenant of co-conspiracy. Yesterday, we numbered 114. Today, we are a handful more than that. And more than that, really. Because all of our friends—the ones who come around weekly and the ones who stop in occasionally, the ones who dial in from a distance and the ones who stop by the barn to use the restroom while out running errands, the 600+ in our Facebook group, the donors from all over the country who help keep us running, the whole other churches (themselves systems of co-conspiracy) who write us grants, and send us refugees, and partner with us—all of us are in this. All of us co-conspire with eachother and with you, one way or another.

God, we ask your blessing on this covenant of co-conspiracy, which some us are committing to on this second week of Advent. We ask for your help in keep the habits of co-conspiracy, and we ask you to never stop knitting us together with all the other co-conspirators who surround us (6 feet apart, of course). We know you are coming, and you are here. Help us prepare the way for you, and prepare the world for what you want. Help us be your daily co-conspirators in the world. Conspire with us, O God, in this little covenant we keep making with you.

And every week of our conspiring, help us to pray the way Jesus taught us. Our Mother-Father who art in heaven…