Scatology: Relational Bullshit Under the Microscope: 4/5

“Love is Sentimental, Love is Romantic, Love is Sweet.” There is a kind of love that loves the idea of love: romantic, idyllic, sappy, needy – when the beloved object is attractive in a variety of ways. It’s the shallowest kind – and while it can lead to the deeper kind, sometimes we get stuck in the lightness of this sweetness. Think of Louis in Angels in America, leaving Prior to suffer through AIDS, wondering if he is capable of love. (He is not.) Agapé is hard-core. It’s decisional. It calls on all your deepest resources. Love is patient, love is kind, love is hard.

Scatology: Relational Bullshit Under the Microscope: 3/5

“I Love an Idea of You That I Need to Remain Constant for Me to Keep Loving You.” Jesus’s own best friends wanted him to play a certain role, fulfill a certain expectation, for them to remain loyal. They tried repeatedly to talk him out of his life’s calling, imagining that they did it for his own good. We do the same: loving someone who is healthy but forsaking them in sickness (more about this next week), loving someone who is weak and forsaking them when they grow strong (countless women who outgrew their husband’s expectation).

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Scatology: Relational Bullshit Under the Microscope: 2/5

“I Love You, But…” Conditional love sucks. The kind of love that requires changes of you before it manifests; the kind of love that evaporates if you don’t fulfill expectations. But what about love that is a priori (independent of experience, maybe even against experience), God’s own decision to have love as God’s primary disposition toward the world? We say it like testimony: “the world God still loves.” Because God has decided to, and God’s love is steadfast. Jesus loves the rich man, Mark says, though the rich man will disappointingly fall short of Jesus’s recommendation for a full life of discipleship.

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Scatology: Relational Bullshit under the Microscope: 1/5

Galileo Church: Epiphany 2

March 6 through April 7, 2019

Lent Series. “Scatology: relational bullshit under the microscope”

For Lent, we’re examining our fourth missional priority closely: “We do real relationship, no bullshit, ever.” What exactly do we mean by “bullshit”? How do we recognize it, avoid it, and avoid doing unto others what we don’t want done to ourselves?  

March 10, First Sunday in Lent. John 4:1-42. 

Origin story: how we got the fourth missional priority, or millennials and queerness, and the miraculous integration of selves. What does it mean that the church of our past asked us to fragment ourselves, keeping part(s) of ourselves hidden from sight or dressed up? Now that we have new eyes on the tradition and the text – Millennials who are shockingly transparent on social media, queer people who refuse to stay in the closet – we are able to see what was always there: that God desires (and so should we) the wholeness of every human being, the sameness of self from one setting to another. The church is a learning lab for integration or, colloquially, “no bullshit, ever.” Postscript: the no bullshit ethic is best practiced in real relationship– both pieces are required for either to have integrity. 

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Come on, Holy Spirit: Deep Cuts from the RCL: 4/4

Genesis 45:3-11, 15

Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40

The theme ‘How We Exegete Our Own Lives: Questions of Theodicy.’

What do we make of it when bad things happen to us, who are good people, in spite of our trying so hard?

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Come on, Holy Spirit: Deep Cuts from the RCL: 3/4

February 24, the Sixth Sunday After the Epiphany (Katie preaching)

Jeremiah 17:5-10

Psalm 1

The faithful are “like trees planted by the water,” say both these poets. What is our water? Where are we planted? Do we get to choose that? What difference does it make?

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Come on, Holy Spirit: Deep Cuts from the RCL: 2/4

1 Corinthians 15:1-20

Psalm 138

“We who must die demand a miracle,” said W.H. Auden. The extension of God’s universal sovereignty to the matter of my own individual life is a hard stretch for many, but bedrock for our faith. Else, is this all there is?

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Come on, Holy Spirit: Deep Cuts from the RCL: 1/4

Because Epiphany was extra-long this year, and because Katie will be gone for a couple of Sundays near the end of the season, and because we read a whole bunch of Luke’s early chapters early in the year, we’re doing a short series where the preacher gets to choose from the Revised Common Lectionary readings for the day – just not from Luke.

February 10, the Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany (Leah Jordan preaching)

Jeremiah 1:4-10

Psalm 71:1-6

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IRL: Embodied Church in the Digital Millennium: 5/5

The Only Binary We’re Interested In: Here vs. Not Here. We do church for people who are not here yet, because they are the ones who don’t yet know that God’s love is the engine that powers the universe, that they are loved as they are, that they are invited into God’s love here and now. This is not co-conspirator vs. “friend,” or super-involved vs. barely involved. We only recognize two groups: here and not here, meaning that we remain evangelistic in nature, wanting more people to have this experience of the embodied love of God. Which may mean we are called to UTA, or the Pickle Parade, or any other place where we think we can find spiritual refugees, castaways washed up on our shores…

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IRL: Embodied Church in the Digital Millennium: 4/5

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IRL: Embodied Church in the Digital Millennium: 3/5

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IRL: Embodied Church in the Digital Millennium: 2/5

Our first missional priority is, “we do justice for LGBTQ+ people.” Tyler Araki, a student at Brite Divinity School on his way to ordination in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), reminds us that justice is something we do with our bodies. Jesus almost got thrown off a cliff for it. How do you embody justice?

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IRL: Embodied Church in the Digital Millennium: 1/5

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What Did You Bring Me, Jesus?: 5/5

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Christmas Eve 2018: Expectancy

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What Did You Bring Me, Jesus?: 3/5

This week, Jesus brings us a vision for our future and purpose. Which is…kind of incredible. Who helps you understand what you need to do and why?

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What Did You Bring Me, Jesus?: 4/5

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What Did You Bring Me, Jesus?: 2/5

The second gift Jesus gives us is Peace. He’s a lot more peaceful than the scary John the Baptist guy, whom our Lead Evangelist wants to grab a beer with. “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?!” How’s that for a Christmas card?

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What Did You Bring Me, Jesus?: 1/5

What’d ya bring me, Jesus? For our Advent series this year, we’re discovering the wonderful gifts Jesus gives us. This week: the gift of Hope.

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Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken: 7/7

Katie’s back! And she’s finishing up the series Irie started, with our last resistance figure from the Bible: Jesus! (Of course.) The Beatitudes. They resist just about everything, don’t they?

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