This document discusses the importance of laughter, questions, and love in the church. It argues that the church needs both stability through doctrines but also flexibility through questioning and new ideas. Matrix Lutherans are encouraged to take the red pill of risk and adventure rather than the blue pill of the status quo. The church should immerse itself in communities through compassionate action. Early Christians provided a model of selfless love during plagues that led to healing and conversions. Love is presented as the most important principle for the church.

1. Learning the Alphabets of God’s Kingdom in the 21 st Century : L the Way

2. L Laughter! for

3. What is the shortest verse in Scripture?

4. Not “ Jesus wept”? But “ Rejoice evermore!”

5. “ A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.” (Proverbs 17:22)

6. Laughter … Reduces stress hormones May help lower blood pressure Helps manage pain Relaxes the body

7. 400 Times per day Children laugh…

8. 15 Times per day Adults laugh

9. Laugh to the Lord, (All the Earth, let us Laugh!)

10. L (Re)-Loaded for

11. From ML To ML…

12. “ Here I Stand” Martin Luther

13. The Church needs STABILITY and a Firm FOUNDATION

14. A Mighty FORTRESS is our God!

15. A BULWARK Never Failing!

16. But the Church Also Needs Another Motto

17. “ There We Go!” Matrix Lutherans

18. Will you take the BLUE pill of safety and the ‘status quo’? Or the RED pill of truth, risk and adventure?

19. Matrix Lutherans Must RE-LEARN

20. We Must Use QUESTIONS to move Forward…

21. “ The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all ” Edward de Bono

22. It’s Okay to be Unsure / Uncertain

23. 31 st October 2017 95 Questions!

24. Because THERE WE GO!!

25. To IMMERSE Ourselves into the World…

26. To IMMERSE Ourselves into our COMMUNITIES…

27. To set our Sights on the World…

28. … to make Earth AS IT IS in Heaven

29. The World Must Feel Our Warmth & Touch

30. Our enemies must be ‘Invaded’ by our Kindness & Compassion

31. “ So let’s go where Jesus is, where the action is… (Heb 13:13, THE MSG )

32. Remember, Immersion!

33. Immersion…

34. Immersion…

35. Immersion

36. “ Here I Stand ” “ There We Go ” Positions & Doctrines Projects & Networks Answers & Certainty Questions & Re-Learning Confirming the Way to Heaven Ensuring Earth is as it is in Heaven God’s Truth Is the Church’s Fortress Immersive Love Is Jesus’ Hands & Feet Personal Justification by Faith Community Redemption via Jesus-Directed Action

37. ROOTS WINGS

39. In AD165, Rome suffered a plague…

40. In AD251, another plague hit

41. Thousands were Dying…

42. According to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria, writing in AD260…

43. “ Most of our brothers showed unbounded love…never sparing themselves and thinking only of one another… Heedless of danger, they took charge of the sick, attending to their every need and ministering to them in Christ … drawing on themselves the sickness of their neighbors and cheerfully accepting their pains…”

44. Result? ‘ Miraculous’ healing Huge Conversions Growth of Christian population Spread of Christian love/principles throughout empire!

45. L Love for

46. " A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples , if you love one another ." (John 13:35)

47. LOVE is the Jesus Brand

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