The secret symbol for sharing faith

Ancient Christian practice from before there were 'kinds' of Christians

I feel drawn to create a ‘gym for your soul’ for many reasons:

• To bring myself and others into deeper relationship with God.

• To create an easy way to enter into the complex question of what it means to be a Christian.

• To create something experiential rather than intellectual. It’s not about what it means as much as about how it is lived.

• To consider what it means to be spiritually healthy - how we incorporate faith practice into our daily lives, the way we consider how we care for our bodies.
  
  AND … I’ve always been fascinated by how the first Christians did it.
  
  Way, way before there were denominations, or reformations, or this group splitting from that group, or each group subtly (and not so subtly) inferring that real Christians believe this way, not that way.

In the beginning, there were just Christians.

Disciples making their way in their lives and in the world. Lives transformed by Jesus’ resurrection. Lives revolved around sharing the new life they found through believing in Jesus’ resurrection.

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As early as the year 150 AD, there are mentions of the fish as a symbol for Christianity. A subtle way that Christians made themselves known, and shared the fact that they were around.

A sign for others to join.

This inspired me to create the Trexo fish, drawing on some of the same symbolism:

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The Trexo spiritual exercises are meant to call back to the very first practicing Christians. These are the people who knew Jesus - and those who knew the people who knew Jesus.

In fact, that’s what we are today!

We are the people who knew people who knew people … all the way back to the very first Christians!

That’s why we’re learning from them.

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Trexo uses 3 major sources to understand how the earliest Christians oriented their lives around their faith:

• The Acts of the Apostles - from the New Testament of the Bible. This is the history of how the church began.

• The Didache - (DEE-dah-kay), one of the earliest Christian texts, dating from the first or second century.

• The Apostolic Tradition - attributed to Hippolytus, one of the ancient church Fathers, but most likely a collection of instructional texts from the second and third centuries.

From these sources, we’ve developed simple exercises that are the building blocks of the Christian life of faith: prayer and worship, discipleship and evangelism, Scripture and economics (household management), hospitality and relationship.

The basics of belief. To stretch your soul and bring you closer in relationship with God.

It all begins with prayer!

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