Monday Reflection Week 5

The exercise on Monday was to get in small groups and find Kingdom like characteristics in different church traditions. This was a bit hard since the only resource we had at the time was the book from Karkainnen. It would have helped if someone from the tradition we were looking at (Lutheran in our case) was in our group; but most of us were clueless on Lutheran tradition. Yet the interesting part was the personal interpretation (which by combining group we ended up with around 14 people) of each students. Since most of us were not familiar with the tradition, we had to wrestle with how to understand what was described in the book. Many tried to interpreted the ideas in the book in light of their own tradition and experiences. Once then we started connecting it with the idea of Kingdom of God. It felt like the process of an entry in wikipedia. Fun exercise but I am not sure if it was much helpful since the accuracy of what was presented is still questionable and somewhat weak.