1. Learning the Alphabets of God’s Kingdom in the 21 st Century C

2. C Church for

3. Church is __________?

4. Not a people who are ‘going to heaven’

5. Not a people who keeps holy rules…

10. Not a people who have ‘the Truth’

11. Not a people who have a ‘personal relationship with God’

12. “ (By) abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations, Jesus’ purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace…” Ephesians 2:15

13. So what is ‘Church’?

14. A World- On-The-Way …

15. An Outpost from Another World

16. A Counter-Invasion

17. A New Kind of Humanity

18. “ God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God .” 2Cor 5:21

19. i.e…

20. We ARE the righteousness of God !

21. The church embodies God’s intentions for the world as reflected in Jesus Christ

22. Grace for ALL, especially those who are different…

23. What’s Good News for this person?

24. What’s Good News for creation?

25. What’s Good News for Culture ?

26. The Church exists primarily for its NON-members! world self church

27. Suffering with the weak

28. Suffering for the Oppressor

30. "We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We shall meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you. ”

31. "We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust law….”

32. "Throw us in jail and we shall still love you . Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our community at the midnight hour and beat us and leave us half dead, and we shall still love you. ”

33. "But be ye assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer. One day we shall win freedom but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process and our victory will be a double victory." Martin Luther King, Jr.