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Are you ready to grow closer to God and live a life of more JOY?
Everyone is invited to become part of the Trexo gym. You can join as an individual and practice completely online.
You can join with a congregation or other community and participate in the Trexo practices together (there’s even a discount for groups).
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Gym members (paid Subscribers) join us for all the Practices, plus Coffee with Coaches and building our Workouts. It’s the full community experience!
There’s three major parts to belonging to the gym:
1. Practice
2. Train with the best
3. Commit to a Workout
Every serious athlete has a training plan.
In the ancient church, they called it a Rule of Life. St. Benedict wrote the most famous Rule in Christian history:
Ora et Labora: Pray and work.
Benedict’s Rule also established the Daily Office - a cycle of eight prayer services rooted in the Jewish tradition of praying throughout the day (Episcopalians still find this in abbreviated form in the Book of Common Prayer: Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Evening Prayer, Compline (bedtime prayers).
We need a structure that balances our life: mind, body, and spirit.
It’s a structural framework that provides rhythm, consistency, and direction for our life with God - which is our whole life.
We’ll build our Workouts together as a commitment to the Practices we’re engaged in, how often and when.
Bonus: Become a Trexo Chapter
You can become a Trexo ‘Chapter’ as a community if you are interested in using the Trexo Practices and guidelines as a base and developing your own Practices.
You can move from being a congregation to being a Community of Practice, without moving out of the building or changing your Sunday worship.
Today’s churches are often struggling - not enough people, resources, or growth. Our very existence may be in question.
A lot of this comes from institutional church change and living in a new era of the Christian faith. It means looking at what we do at church - and why and how - and being willing to see what is connecting us as a community to sharing the Gospel and a life of JOY, and what we may need to let go of.
Not everything a congregation does is a Practice of the earliest church.
The 6-part Practice formula is used as a tool for discernment: a way of asking, honestly and carefully, whether what your community is doing is actually forming you in Christ — or just keeping the institution running.
Then giving you the framework to rebuild.
Every true Practice must:
Connect to the ancient Church - traceable to the earliest Christians
Fall under one of four categories: Worship, Prayer, Hospitality, Service
Be rooted in your community’s own Statement of Faith
And you use the Trexo Practices as the base of a Community of Practice that connects you directly with the earliest church - and to other Christians - while maintaining the worship, denomination, and particular expression of faith of your congregation.
We’re still developing this, so email us to learn more about becoming a Trexo Chapter
Trexo grounds us in what unites all Christians
When you practice these ancient disciplines, you’re not joining a denomination.
You’re joining the Church.
The living body of Christ across 2,000 years, uniting every tradition, connecting everyone who follows Jesus.
And it requires something of you
Just like the physical gym - it works if you work it.
You were made for more than this.
Find out how much more when you commit to stretching and strengthening your soul. When you discover that your whole life is life with God.
You will be actively seeking communication with and orientation towards God with your whole life.
You will be following Jesus like the people who knew the people who knew Jesus did (and by the way, you’re one of those people!).
Your life could be radically changed by opening yourself to greater intimacy with God - by stretching and strengthening your soul.
You could find life-altering levels of love, peace, contentment and JOY.
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