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Prodigal Kiwis quotes Michael J. Gorman.. In summary, "mission is the hermeneutic of the Gospel." This is a conversation that was widely heard on blogs worldwide about three years ago. "[Missional Hermeneutics] is grounded in the theological principle of the missio Dei, or mission of God. This term summarizes the conviction that the Scriptures of both Testaments bear witness to a God who, as creator and redeemer of the world, is already on a mission.. 1. Mission is not a part of the church's life (represented locally by a small line item in the budget) but the whole, the essence of the church's existence; mission is comprehensive. 2. Mission is not the church's initiative but its response, its participation in God's mission; mission is derivative. 3. Mission is not an extension of Western (or any other) power, culture, and values; rather, it is specifically participation in the coming of the kingdom of God. It is therefore critical of all attempts to coerce Christian mission for implicit or explicit political purposes other than the "politics" of the reign of God-the realities of new life, peace, and justice (shalom) promised by the prophets, inaugurated by Jesus, and first spread to the world by the apostles. For Christians in the West, it is crucial that they recognize the failure of Christendom as something to be welcomed, and that they see the church appropriately and biblically as a distinctive subculture within a larger, non-Christian culture. Mission is theo and Christocentric. 4. Mission is not unidirectional (e.g., West to East) but reciprocal. 5. Mission must become the governing framework within which all biblical interpretation takes place; mission is hermeneutical.
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