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The Living Dialog™ Ministries

THE END IN MIND of
the ALIGNMENT NETWORK PROJECT
is a network of emerging adults
committed to practice these seven principles
in the cultures where they live and work.
1. Live connected with God
2. Live with unconditional love
3. Live with courage
4. Live up to your potential
5. Live in dialog
6. Live in hope
7. Live as servant leaders

Network members share questions, experiences, and help. They forge a
community of innovative initiatives, personal growth and motivational
reinforcement. The Project Director hosts this forum. The support
structure for the Project is non-complex and managed by part-time staff.

The Alignment Network Project seeks to encourage
and support those emerging adults willing to explore
and discover the meaning of their relationship to God.
The Project does not recruit members
for a religious affiliation.
The network community will influence the business,
educational, professional, political, and social societies
in which members choose to live and work.

HOW DO GET THERE?
Those who complete a five-session dialog course on
What’s With YOU and GOD? Discover How Well You Know God
are invited to join The Alignment Network.

WHAT’S IN THAT BOOK?
The book is loaded with questions including the chapter titles.
1. What shapes what you know about God?
2. What can we learn from the Bible?
3. What does it mean to have the Mind of Christ?
4. What does it mean to live connected with God?
5. If you discover how well you know God,
so what?

Here are some of the questions in the book to stimulate dialog:
• What is your worldview? How us it leading you?
• Are you willing to think about God in ways you have not thought
about God before?
• How easy or difficult is it for you to love your neighbors as you love
yourself?
• What does servant leadership mean to you?
• If you wrote an Op-Ed article for a national newspaper on the ethical
culture of America today, what would be your main points?
• What can we learn from those who have had near-death experience?
• How do you experience your connection with God?
• When have you acted with courage? What were the results?
• What are you doing to live up to your potential?
• Is living in dialog worth it?
• To what extent do you live in hope?

Course Dialog Facilitators
encourage discovery
in which participants
express their views openly
and honestly and listen to
one another in ways to
gain understanding and
knowledge of what it
means to KNOW God.

What do we mean by dialog?
• When there is an exchange of meaning not just words
• Participants tap into a pool of shared meaning – a “hidden wholeness”
• Each person’s contribution adds value to the discovery
• The purpose is to go beyond any one person’s understanding
• Questions stimulate thought. Reflective thought examines assumptions
• A quest for Truth rather than agreement is the goal
• Listen with empathy
• Dialog builds a trusting community for exploration
• Facilitators stimulate discovery and maintain a respectful environment.

VENUES for the five-session courses include colleges, college campuses,
churches, community centers, and other responsive hosts.

What is distinctive about this Project, the process,
and the curriculum book?
In dialog participants are encouraged to explore, discover, and
through this process to come to KNOW God and what it means
to live connected with God.
This journey includes what we learn from science and religion.
It draws especially from neuroscience. The notes on the
following pages are from the curriculum book.

Our brains process what we find meaningful. These three pound organs
in our heads with billions of neurons, myriads of synaptic connections,
and countless numbers of hormones and neurotransmitters forge maps
that translate our experience into meaning.
The cultures and subcultures to which we are exposed inform the brain
for that mapping. Our brains depend on our guidance for their service.
Our experience, the traditions of our personal societies, the authorities
we accept encode our brains with a worldview that becomes the
authority by which the brain determines what is true.
With its genetic conditioning, environmental influence, its information
storehouse, the worldview by which it determines what is true, and the
principles and habits we internalize from our experience, our brains
come up with our personal choices of what is right and wrong and how
we should behave in light of those choices.

Our capacity to feel as well as to think is rooted in the brain. The
brain not only takes care of basic life functions, it takes care of
higher functions like loving and learning.
When our emotions reinforce our decision making, the decision
gets planted deeper in memory and surfaces more readily to
influence our behavior.
Experiences reinforced by emotion have heavy impact on our
knowing God. We trust or don’t trust the God we know based on
our experience.
It is with this understanding of what directs us that our signature
graphic shows a path from the brain to the mind to the Mind of
Christ and to the principles by which we live our lives.

What we learn about the brain
requires us to stretch our thinking
about what it means
to be connected with God.

IS THERE A PLACE FOR THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO PRACTICE
THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES FOR LIVING CONNECTED WITH
GOD IN AMERICA TODAY?
Thomas Jefferson championed the First Freedom – the Freedom of
Religion – and affirmed the importance of the separation of religion
and government. He did not propose a secular society.
Outside of government, people can freely express their religion. There,
“truth is great and will prevail if left to herself … she is the proper
and sufficient antagonist to error,” the Virginia statue explains.
This note is from “The exceptional blessing of religious freedom” in the January 11,
2015 Richmond Times Dispatch by John Ragosta author of “Religious Freedom:
Jefferson’s Legacy, America’s Creed and Wellspring of Liberty”

THE ALIGNMENT NETWORK PROJECT
engages facilitators to guide five-session courses
based on the curriculum book
What’s With You and God?
Discover How Well You KNOW God
in multiple host venues
with the invitation to those who complete these courses
to join the Alignment Network
and to practice the seven principles for living connected with God
where they live and work.

THE ALIGNMENT NETWORK PROJECT
HAS A FIVE-YEAR PLAN THAT IS CAPSULED
IN THE GRAPHIC BELOW

NOTES:
1. The numbers on the chart are net having subtracted anticipated dropouts.
2. Dialog Facilitators might lead more than one group in a given year. A
network of dialog facilitators for those who continue to offer courses.
3. Facilitators receive an honorarium for each completed five-session course.
4. Some venues might host more than one group in a given year.
5. Books will be provided free in the first year (2015) and will be covered by
the registration fee in following years.
6. A more detailed plan with budget for the five years is available on
request from the Project Director. (see next page)
7. The Living Dialog™ Ministries is the sponsor for this Project.

The Alignment Network Project is under the direction of the TLDM, Inc.
Board of Directors, supervised by the President, of TLDM, Irving Stubbs.
Nancie Wingo is the Project Director. thealignmentnetwork@gmail.com.
TLDM’s mission: Encourage the discovery of God’s Truth through dialog.
TLDM, Inc. (The Living Dialog™ Ministries) was incorporated by the State
Corporation Commission of the Commonwealth of Virginia on 12/02/2009
It is a tax- exempt organization under section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue
Code. Contributions can be made to TLDM and mailed to the address above.

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