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ReflectionJournalWK4.docx

Reflection Journal

Completion requirements

Instructions

Exegete (i.e., critically interpret) conversation and discourse in casual or social spaces you frequent (either in person or digital).

· What narratives are assumed, foundational, explored, repeated, questioned, challenged, or avoided?

· How are divergent ideas (or those who hold them) discussed or treated?

· What unwritten rules influence what conversation, stories, or ideas are acceptable or unacceptable?

Overall Instructions

Each week, submit a 1–2-page written journal that invites you to reflect on contexts and cultures within which you live and may one day do ministry, along with guided topical reflections. Make connections between each topic and the readings, videos, and discussions in the course. Your journal each week invites you into observational reflection. Using specific examples to support your reflection as much as possible, explore, examine, and ultimately exegete your perspectives, assumptions, influences, experiences, questions, reactions, and growth as you engage the perspectives and stories of others who are both similar and different from you. Each week’s journal asks you to exegete (that is, expound and interpret) aspects of your context, similar to how you would exegete Scripture. The following questions can further guide your observations and interpretation each week:

1. What have I learned during readings, learning exercises, and efforts to hold tension between ideas in this course?

2. What stands out to me as I exegete my world, my influences, my church, my library, and my own formation?

3. What do I find challenging, uncomfortable, or unresolved?

4. How am I choosing to adapt to new experiences or information?

5. What am I feeling about opportunities for growth, change, and my own calling to ministry in a globalized world?

Wk4Discussion4.docx

How Do We Read Scripture?

Completion requirements

Purpose

Do you tend to approach the book of God's mission literally or literarily?

The purpose of this discussion is not to help put knowledge in your head but to invite you to a game of mindfulness. What do you know or not yet understand? What would you like to find out more about?

Instructions

· In your initial post, use approximately 250 words and include at least one specific citation in order to receive full credit.

· In your replies, include scholarly questions, additional examples or counterexamples, and/or additional connections to assigned course materials (readings/videos). Include at least one of the following:

· How does their response challenge or influence you?

· Do you think differently about something that they said? Respectfully explain with an example or counterexample they can consider.

· What questions do their ideas raise in your mind?

Questions

Before responding, review Chapter 6: McLaren—The Bible in Labor (6 pages).

In your initial post, respond to the following set of questions.

1. Using McLaren's matrix as a tool (or explaining why the matrix is not helpful), what is the story of your experience with and approach to reading the Bible? How has your approach changed over time? What or who influenced your approach? What does the phrase "Scripture is God-breathed" mean to you? How might this meaning inform how you study and bear witness to the good news of God's mission?

ReflectionJournalWK4.docx

Reflection Journal

Completion requirements

Instructions

Exegete (i.e., critically interpret) conversation and discourse in casual or social spaces you frequent (either in person or digital).

· What narratives are assumed, foundational, explored, repeated, questioned, challenged, or avoided?

· How are divergent ideas (or those who hold them) discussed or treated?

· What unwritten rules influence what conversation, stories, or ideas are acceptable or unacceptable?

Overall Instructions

Each week, submit a 1–2-page written journal that invites you to reflect on contexts and cultures within which you live and may one day do ministry, along with guided topical reflections. Make connections between each topic and the readings, videos, and discussions in the course. Your journal each week invites you into observational reflection. Using specific examples to support your reflection as much as possible, explore, examine, and ultimately exegete your perspectives, assumptions, influences, experiences, questions, reactions, and growth as you engage the perspectives and stories of others who are both similar and different from you. Each week’s journal asks you to exegete (that is, expound and interpret) aspects of your context, similar to how you would exegete Scripture. The following questions can further guide your observations and interpretation each week:

1. What have I learned during readings, learning exercises, and efforts to hold tension between ideas in this course?

2. What stands out to me as I exegete my world, my influences, my church, my library, and my own formation?

3. What do I find challenging, uncomfortable, or unresolved?

4. How am I choosing to adapt to new experiences or information?

5. What am I feeling about opportunities for growth, change, and my own calling to ministry in a globalized world?

Wk4Discussion4.docx

How Do We Read Scripture?

Completion requirements

Purpose

Do you tend to approach the book of God's mission literally or literarily?

The purpose of this discussion is not to help put knowledge in your head but to invite you to a game of mindfulness. What do you know or not yet understand? What would you like to find out more about?

Instructions

· In your initial post, use approximately 250 words and include at least one specific citation in order to receive full credit.

· In your replies, include scholarly questions, additional examples or counterexamples, and/or additional connections to assigned course materials (readings/videos). Include at least one of the following:

· How does their response challenge or influence you?

· Do you think differently about something that they said? Respectfully explain with an example or counterexample they can consider.

· What questions do their ideas raise in your mind?

Questions

Before responding, review Chapter 6: McLaren—The Bible in Labor (6 pages).

In your initial post, respond to the following set of questions.

1. Using McLaren's matrix as a tool (or explaining why the matrix is not helpful), what is the story of your experience with and approach to reading the Bible? How has your approach changed over time? What or who influenced your approach? What does the phrase "Scripture is God-breathed" mean to you? How might this meaning inform how you study and bear witness to the good news of God's mission?

ReflectionJournalWK4.docx

Reflection Journal

Completion requirements

Instructions

Exegete (i.e., critically interpret) conversation and discourse in casual or social spaces you frequent (either in person or digital).

· What narratives are assumed, foundational, explored, repeated, questioned, challenged, or avoided?

· How are divergent ideas (or those who hold them) discussed or treated?

· What unwritten rules influence what conversation, stories, or ideas are acceptable or unacceptable?

Overall Instructions

Each week, submit a 1–2-page written journal that invites you to reflect on contexts and cultures within which you live and may one day do ministry, along with guided topical reflections. Make connections between each topic and the readings, videos, and discussions in the course. Your journal each week invites you into observational reflection. Using specific examples to support your reflection as much as possible, explore, examine, and ultimately exegete your perspectives, assumptions, influences, experiences, questions, reactions, and growth as you engage the perspectives and stories of others who are both similar and different from you. Each week’s journal asks you to exegete (that is, expound and interpret) aspects of your context, similar to how you would exegete Scripture. The following questions can further guide your observations and interpretation each week:

1. What have I learned during readings, learning exercises, and efforts to hold tension between ideas in this course?

2. What stands out to me as I exegete my world, my influences, my church, my library, and my own formation?

3. What do I find challenging, uncomfortable, or unresolved?

4. How am I choosing to adapt to new experiences or information?

5. What am I feeling about opportunities for growth, change, and my own calling to ministry in a globalized world?