New Blog

Here is a new blog by Zondervan titled Koinonia; biblical theological conversations for the community of Christ. It consists of many excellent evangelical scholars, including a former proffessor of mine while I was at Moody Bible Institute; John Walton.

I mention him because he wrote an entry titled Hermeneutics and Childrens Curriculum which I found to be very important for today's church. We do need to carefully screen any curriculum we use in our churches, and those who write curriculum need to pay better attention not just to educational principles, but also to bible study methodology. I especially appreciate the notes people have written, noting that this problem is not just with children's curriculum, but also with adult curriculum.

What is important is that while we may not be teaching people hermeneutical methods, we are modeling it for them, and therefore must be careful to practice sound hermeneutics in our lesson planning.