Q Reflective Journal Entry 1 As you’ve read Macchia, chapters 1 – 5, you’ve been exposed to 5 vital areas of a Rule of Life. Create a list followed by a brief explanation of each of the 5 areas: Roles, Gifts, Desires, Vision, and Mission. Roles: Gifts: Desires: Vision: Mission: ________________________________________ The reflective journal should blend three emphases: • Your responses to the course materials, discussions, and assignments • Your life experience relevant to the course objectives • Your ministry goals and desires for the future The journal should record your thinking from several class activities: • Questions to be answered at this time are: Any assignments that are not to be turned in. Incorporate those assignments into your journal. o What have I learned today? o How might this material stretch me into new areas of learning? o How do my life and ministry experiences relate to what we have studied today? Do they clash? Challenge? Confirm my experiences? • How do this week's memory verses apply to this week's themes and to my life? • Any other reading or experiences you may wish to include in your written record.