Galileo Church

We seek and shelter spiritual refugees, rally health for all who come, and fortify every tender soul with the strength to follow Jesus into a life of world-changing service.

5860 I-20 service road Fort Worth, TX 76119 USA

(682) 760-1274

OUR MISSIONAL PRIORITIES:

1. We do justice for LGBTQ+ humans, and support the people who love them.

2. We do kindness for people with mental illness and in emotional distress, and celebrate neurodiversity.

3. We do beauty for our God-Who-Is-Beautiful.

4. We do real relationship, no bullshit, ever.

5. We do whatever it takes to share this good news with the world God still loves.

Trying to find us IRL?
Mail here: P.O. Box 668, Kennedale, TX 76060
Worship here: 5 pm CT Sundays; 5860 I-20 service road, Fort Worth 76119

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Exercises for spiritual Fitness

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“Spiritual disciplines” is the category we use for practices that sharpen our experience of the Holy One. Traditionally, these practices were delineated as prayer, fasting, and tithing, based especially on Jesus’s assumption that his followers would do these things (see Matthew 6:2, 6:5, 6:16). But through the centuries we have learned to seek the Holy One through a range of practices, some of which we’ll explore together in this series.

Quotidian mysteries and hospitality. On how the mundane chores of daily life break open the possibility for generous hospitality. On how we make our homes places of welcome (even for our own family members). On how humble work yields great possibilities. Genesis 18:1-15; Psalm 127:1-2.

Sabbath-keeping, saying no, and handling money. On how maintaining a rhythm of rest and restraint (from commerce, from busy-ness, from self-serving) allows us to say “yes” to the call of God to love and serve the poor. On how Sabbath-keeping unites us in the admission of exhaustion and need. On how Sabbath practice requires public policy advocacy for the working poor, and personal discipline in our own finances. Deuteronomy 5:1-15; Isaiah 58:9b-14.

Prayer and the art of getting lost. On how, in the same way that God exercises a preferential option for the poor, God also exercises a preferential option for those who are wandering, lost. On how it feels to seek and be sought; to grasp and be grasped; to discover that “surely God is in this place and I did not know it.” On prayer as a way of getting lost, intentionally, so that one may be found by God. Genesis 28:10-22; Psalm 119:169-176.

Mindfulness of the world and honoring the body. On how “noticing”, and stopping to turn aside, and honoring the interruption, can reveal the mystery of God. On how God’s own self is turned aside, embodied in Jesus, Word become flesh. On how “bodies” are essential to the holiness code of our ancestors. On how our own bodies are our vehicle for being in the world God loves, and should be appreciated thusly. Exodus 3:1-15; John 1:1-5, 14-18.

Benediction and suffering. On how suffering (letting it hurt as much as it hurts) strips our defenses, leaves us open to God and God’s comfort, with no illusion of self-help. On how living into the pain makes us ready to speak truth. On how that truth can be kind, merciful, and edifying (or not). On how our beloveds listen to what we say, how we narrate our (and their) experiences, and how it matters. Ephesians 4:25-32.

Conversion. On how the Christian life is a lifelong series of conversions. On how God is never finished with us. On how “convertibility” is a Christian virtue, and a necessary one. On how “settled-ness” is dangerous.