Define: Hermeneutics

This video from the Great Commission Council seeks to define hermeneutics, the study of how to rightly interpret the Bible. Proper hermeneutics is vital for faithful missions, not least because the way we use our Bibles is how the local believers will come to use their Bibles. However, many of the most popular missions methods out there model a sloppy use of the text, seeking to ground methods in the Bible in ways that just don’t fit with the genre or intent of the passage. Therefore, one of the most important things we can do to see sound missions methods on the field is to train missionaries in how they should and should not get their methods from the Bible – to train them in sound hermeneutics.

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