An Inner Metro Green Sermon Series
Hermeneutics should be deep – “deep” as in “deeply” rooted in God’s redemptive story. The act of doing interpretation should – if anything – move us into God’s big story while God’s big story moves into us. BIBLE = Christian Context. Without the story we have no context for our faith and it (faith) ceases to exist. In fact, with no context, it never existed.
Our hermeneutic should also be shallow so as to move us away from the book and into real life and living wherein we can experience God and neighbor and become immersed in God’s great and redemptive story. Real life and living can’t be found between the covers of our Bibles. Our hermeneutic must be shallow enough to prevent us from taking up permanent residence somewhere between the front and back covers of our book.
A hermeneutic for our day must be deep/shallow.
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