In This Episode, We Talk About:

• Defining and applying missional hermeneutics to Biblical text.
• Four approaches to read and interpret the scripture missionally, including their advantages and limitations.
• How to live faithfully to God and get closer to the universal aspects of scripture.

Resources & Links:

Proposals for a Missional Hermeneutic by GR Hunberger

Reading the Bible Missionally by Michael W. Goheen

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Show Notes:

How can we use hermeneutics to see the Bible through new eyes? Today, we are analyzing GR Hunsberger’s Proposals for a Missional Hermeneutic article in order to fully explore four different approaches to interpreting the Bible missionally. We’ll apply these four aspects to a missional reading of scripture as we weigh their individual advantages and disadvantages. What is the difference between interpreting text with missional direction and missional purpose? How does culture and location affect missional hermeneutics? Why is it important to have conversations like these, and what do they achieve? Our goal this episode is to bring you one step closer to missions & missional theology, to the authority of scripture, and to the word of God! Join us in finding different ways to read and enjoy the Bible!

00:00 What are four different approaches to interpreting the Bible missionally?

02:00 How did you interpret the article?

04:30 Defining missional hermeneutics to distinguish “mission” and “missions”.

08:00 Can mission be considered an attribute of God? Why or why not?

12:35 Are Hunsberger’s four hermeneutical approaches sequential?

14:00 How can we use missional direction to interpret the Bible missionally?

17:20 What are the advantages of missio Dei language?

19:20 What is the power of the story?

23:05 How can we read scripture with missional purpose?

26:25 Does this perspective keep us at a self-help level?

28:20 Analyzing the link between missional purpose and missional story.

31:35 How is the Bible interpreted with cultural context?

35:00 Does this give people permission to ask non-interpretive questions outside of their community?

37:00 What is the effect of community, culture, and location on Biblical interpretation?

39:45 What is limiting about localizing interpretation?

43:40 How does the Bible engage culture?

46:25 What is the difference between this approach and the first approach? 

49:50 How does having various perspectives and interpretations bring us closer to the universal demands of scripture?

51:45 Why do conversations like these help us in missions?

53:35 How does this conversation reinforce the authority of scripture relative to the mission of the church?

55:15 What book do we recommend for more missional hermeneutics?