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Theological Reflection Guidelines: Steps and Guide Questions

This document outlines a 6 step process for theological reflection on pastoral experiences: 1) Describe a recent experience, 2) Explore how it shaped you personally and communally, 3) Recognize familiar elements and their relation to the Gospel, 4) Seek surprising elements and their relation to subverting expectations, 5) Acknowledge how the experience invites you to cultivate good news, and 6) Respond to that invitation by considering insights, future actions, recognizing God, and responding to God with life. The goal is to understand actions in relation to building God's kingdom and being co-workers with God.

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Theological Reflection Guidelines: Steps and Guide Questions

This document outlines a 6 step process for theological reflection on pastoral experiences: 1) Describe a recent experience, 2) Explore how it shaped you personally and communally, 3) Recognize familiar elements and their relation to the Gospel, 4) Seek surprising elements and their relation to subverting expectations, 5) Acknowledge how the experience invites you to cultivate good news, and 6) Respond to that invitation by considering insights, future actions, recognizing God, and responding to God with life. The goal is to understand actions in relation to building God's kingdom and being co-workers with God.

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MST Pastoral Ministry Practicum

Theological Reflection Guidelines

Steps and Guide Questions:

1. Naming an experience:

 Name any recent experience in your pastoral involvements that comes to mind

 Frame it as a story – a beginning/middle/end

 Describe the steps taken, feelings that arose, thoughts that crossed your mind

 Note ways in which you were an active participant in this experience

2. Exploring the experience as a person and community:

 Allow yourself to see how your own experience shape you as a person in special
way

 Take note how the experience became communal

 Lay out the ways the process from personal to communal

3. Recognizing the familiar:

 What do I observe as familiar in this particular experience?

 What is comfortable?

 What makes sense about the way people act or respond in this experience? What
is 
“to be expected” in this particular experience/culture?

 How are the familiar pieces of this experience similar to the familiar pieces in the

Gospel?

4. Seeking the surprise:

 What do I observe as surprising in this experience?

 What was uncomfortable?

 What did happen and why were these pieces surprising or shocking? Where have
the expectations of 
people or culture been turned upside down?

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 How are the shocking pieces of this experience similar to the shocking pieces of the

Gospel?

5. Acknowledging the invitation:

 As a participant – I do strive to understand our actions as our response to God,


actions that are good news for the marginalized - building the kingdom of God:

 Where was the good news in the Gospel story you choose? How is that
similar or different from the experience?

 How do the things that surprised me in our experience as community invite


me to cultivate good news?

 How did our actions resemble the good news?


 How could my actions have been more surprising – more in line with the
good news?


 What might I have done differently?


 How do I see my actions as part of our relationship with God?

6. Responding to the invitation:

 What insights or challenges will you hold on to from this reflection?

 How does this reflection impact your actions in the future?

 How does this reflection help you to recognize God in the midst of the world?

 How does this reflection help you name how you might respond to God with your

life?

 How do we or could we as a community celebrate the responses that are good



news?

 How do I see myself as co-worker with God building the Kingdom?

 Name concrete ways, your actions or observations that will change in the future.

(adapted from Preliminary Outline of Method in Theological Reflection in Parabolic


Mode by Christina Zaker, D.Min.)

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