Zao MKE Church

Underground: Be Fully Alive

No one will know when suffering will become liberation, or what will become of the many trials of this life, says Jesus. So what are we to do?

 

Jesus calls us stay present, embodied, and alive in the face of uncertainty and doubt. Stay alert - Be fully alive!

Underground: The Widow’s Protest

Maybe you've heard the story:

A poor widow gives all she has, mere pennies, in offering to the temple.

Is this a picture of perfect generosity?

Or a protest of a system that takes everything--every last penny--from the most vulnerable?

 

Join us for Underground, a series on the gospel of Mark. We'll trace Jesus's story from beginning to end, as he builds a movement while trying to stay off the grid until the right moment arrives for the showdown with empire at the cross. This is the gospel like you've never heard - tell no one.

Underground: Coming Out

What does it mean to come out and claim our identity as counter cultural, liberationist, radical Jesus-followers?

Join us for Underground, the continuation of our series on the gospel of Mark. We'll trace Jesus's story from beginning to end, as he builds a movement while trying to stay off the grid until the right moment arrives for the showdown with empire at the cross. This is the gospel like you've never heard - tell no one.

Rebuilding: Being Human

Divine Image Bearers? Totally depraved? Creatures? Co-creators? What does it mean to be human?

 

Some of us are ready to shed the shame-laden theology that claims human beings are rotten to the core. But how do we find our worth and keep our faith? Or does a faith without fear depend on seeing the good (and the God) in ourselves?

 

This season, join Zao for the series Rebuilding: Faith After Deconstruction. We'll talk about what to do now that the foundation of your faith is in shambles around you - do you pick it up? walk away? or can we build something new?

 

Rebuilding: In The Beginning...

7 days ️or dinosaurs?

Literal or mythological?

Religion ️or science?

 

This week, we tackle the creation of all things. What have we been taught in church that's toxic or ignorant? What is a more nuanced and mature way to approach our Bibles, faith, and science?

Rebuilding: Who is God?

If we reject the idea of God as a bearded white man in the clouds, we're still left with a question: Who is God, and what are they like?

 

This season, join Zao for the series Rebuilding: Faith After Deconstruction. We'll talk about what to do now that the foundation of your faith is in shambles around you - do you pick it up? walk away? or can we build something new?

Rebuilding: Does Prayer Work?

Am I supposed to run everything by God? Does God really give us what we ask for? If my prayers aren't answered, was I not faithful enough?

 

Many of us have been taught toxic or simplistic messages about prayer - as though it is a cure-all, a measure of our faith, or a performance of our piety.

 

But scripture does instruct us to pray. So why do we do it, and does it work?

 

This season, join Zao for the series Rebuilding: Faith After Deconstruction. We'll talk about what to do now that the foundation of your faith is in shambles around you - do you pick it up? walk away? or can we build something new?

Rebuilding: Stop Worshipping Your Bible

What if the church has made an idol out of the Bible?

 

As so many of us deconstruct our faith, the Bible becomes more more troubling. What if the Bible isn't perfect? It doesn't need to be when we remember that the Bible isn't God.

 

This season, join Zao for the series Rebuilding: Faith After Deconstruction. We'll talk about what to do now that the foundation of your faith is in shambles around you - do you pick it up? walk away? or can we build something new?

Rebuilding: Faith After Deconstruction

So you've been deconstructing all the toxic teachings of the fundie church you grew up in. Now what?

 

This Sunday, Zao kicks off the series Rebuilding: Faith After Deconstruction. We'll talk about what to do now that the foundation of your faith is in shambles around you - do you pick it up? walk away? or can we build something new?

You Can’t Break My Soul

Special guest sermon by Dee Dee Watters

Dee Dee Watters (she/her/hers) is an unapologetic Black Woman of trans experience who is a mother, leader, healer, performer and recently stepping into her calling as a death doula. She’s a member of Freshwind Christian Fellowship under the guidance of Pastor Marvetta Walker.

Dee Dee is the publisher for TransGriot an online publication and the host of TransGriot Weekly. Nationally recognized for her leadership and advocacy around trans murders she asks that you join her in telling elected officials that trans rights are human rights! And we must ban the trans panic defense!