Updated Guide to Missional Hermeneutics on the Real Meal Blog

Here are links to selected essays that highlight my best thinking and writing on a missional hermeneutic:

Essays that Provide a Broad Introduction to Missional Hermeneutics:
Goal of Biblical Interpretation

All the World’s A Stage: Story and the Mission of God

The Necessity of a Missional Reading of Scripture: Random Thoughts

The Grand Narrative of Scripture: An Outline

Current Outline for my Proposed book on missiological interpretation

Reading the Bible Missiologically. Here is the series that I presented in January 2006 for Wycliffe Bible Translators in Orlando:
Seeing the Big Picture 1
Seeing the Bib Picture 2
Implications of Seeing the Big Picture
Implementing a Missiological Reading in the Church

Here are essays detailing the OT’s Contribution to Understanding the Mission of God’s People:

The OT and Mission of God (Part one and Part Two)

Missional Hermeneutics and Old Testament

Reading Genesis 1:1-2:3 Missionally

Missional Hermeneutics and Current Climate of Biblical Studies

Here are essays that focus on method:
Key Distinctives of a Missional Reading

Reading the Bible Missionally: Thinking about Method

Questions for a Missional Reading

Sample of a Bible Study Deploying a Missional Hermeneutic: Exod 3:12

Essays Focused on Real World Application

Encounter in the Real World: Role of Scripture in Mission This essay explore the relationship between the study of the Bible and actual encounters with non-Christ followers.

Connecting the Gospel to the World (Parts one, two, and three). This series explores three intrinsic needs: holiness, mission, and community.

Living a Missional Lifestyle This essay attempts to sketch out some practical ways to embody mission as part of one’s personal ethos.

Missional Hermeneutics and Preaching in the 21st Century

Keys to Preaching that Connects

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