Missional Hermeneutics
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:
What is a Missional Hermeneutic?
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 forthcoming Wipf and Stock book (2010) on missional 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
Read all essays tagged Missional Hermeneutics on the Real Meal Blog
Additional Bibliographic Resources:
Missional Hermeneutics: A Bibliography