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.

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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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This is us

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This series moves us through the first third, roughly, of Ordinary Time, or the Sundays After Pentecost. We’ll begin with a stand-alone service to review our Missional Priorities, centering voices from the congregation to talk about their experiences.

Six subsequent Sundays will be spent exploring the Judeo-Christian story of origins from Genesis 1-12, identifying six one-word themes that describe humanity as we relate to our Creator-Sustainer-Redeemer.

We remembered our missional priorities with varied voices saying what they mean: 

1. We do justice for LGBTQ+ people.

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

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

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

Our usual preacher wasn’t sure they would let her back in the pulpit after hearing from these rock stars.

This Is Us: Good. The Creator calls forth order out of chaos, light out of darkness, and something out of nothing. All along the way, the Creator inspects what has been made and declares it “good”. The scope is comprehensive: everything that is, is God; and everything that is, is good. How does that impact our own anthropology and self-understanding, if our starting place is “good”? Genesis 1:1–2:4a; Genesis 2:4b–25.

This Is Us: Broken. Early in our story of origins, the connections established in creation are broken – between God and humans, between humans and other humans, and between the humans and very ground on which they walk. The damage is thorough – even the ground is infected, and brother murders brother. This story, following so quickly from the Eden story, is how our ancestors accounted for their dual experience of humanity – that people are trustworthy and kind; and that people are selfish and violent.  Genesis 3 and 4.

This Is Us: Remnant. The Noah story is an important identifying marker for Noah’s descendants – we are a remnant, the small tribe rescued from the sea of despond by a Redeemer (new role, after Creator) on whose mercy we are entirely dependent. How does it change us to have a story of bare survival in our originating narrative? And what does it mean that our Redeemer regrets the sweeping punishment and offers a covenant of reform of the Redeemer’s own behavior? (Genesis 5:1-27;) Genesis 5:28–8:22.

This Is Us: Covenant. The God who made us (good), and knows us (broken), and loves us (remnant), wants to make our relationship official. Covenant is the way we talk about the promises God makes to us and asks of us; covenant is the way we learn faithfulness in steadfast love. The Noachic covenant is the earliest example of this in our ancestors’ history. Genesis 9 and 10.

This Is Us: Scattered. Our ancestors needed a way to explain the contentious diversity among peoples of the earth – how we got from one common ancestor to the plurality of languages, cultures, ethnicities, and the misunderstandings that arise because of power differentials. We’ll talk about the heartache and beauty of the diversity of humanity. Genesis 11.

This Is Us: Heirs. The second covenant in our story of origins is the Abrahamic covenant – “in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” And Galatians declares that we are “heirs of Abraham” – descendants of promise. So we live as those who have been provided for, spiritually speaking, from ages ago. We rest in promises that God has been making and fulfilling for longer than we can count. Genesis 12:1-9; Galatians 3:23-29.