TEE this weekend focuses on Martin Luther. We found early on that this would be an important topic to cover after we received some... um... "interesting" questions about Luther from our students. The Lutheran church has only been in Uganda for about 14 years. Many people have never even heard the word "Lutheran." It's important that our students, as lay leaders in their Lutheran church, be able to correct any misconceptions or address any questions raised about this "Lutheran" stuff.
To set the stage, I condensed one entire 3-credit Seminary class into a 3 hour lecture: "The Church of the Late Middle Ages." Rev. Dr. Erik Herrmann, my professor for the Seminary course, would have been appalled at how much I had to cut out of the material. But we knew it was important to set the scene and to show our students how Martin Luther was at just the right place at just the right time for the concerns he raised to spark the Protestant Reformation.
My co-worker, Reverend Jacob Gillard, presented some of the facts and people in Luther's story along with a timeline. Then we watched the most recent Luther movie. When we screen movies here we keep the subtitles on to help with comprehension and we stopped the movie occasionally to summarize or answer questions. As one would expect, the movie helped tremendously. They've asked us to show movies every weekend now! Although I'm not sure how I'm going to find a good movie to explain the Anglican Church and its "theology" for next week! -Shauen
Shauen & Krista