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How do we interpret Scripture, integrate it into our lives, and then minister in a way that reflects the kingdom of God within our contemporary culture? This most significant book on hermeneutics (the interpretation of Scripture) helps us understand this question. --Gailyn Van Rheenen, author of Missions If you are anything like me, you love to read books about Jesus. While we see the church continuing to struggle with our place and identity in North American culture, K. Rex Butts gives us a compelling picture of what it means to combine our Christology and ecclesiology. It turns out the two can't be separated! --Joshua Graves, author of How Not to Kill a Muslim In Gospel Portraits, K. Rex Butts bids us come to the Bible with new and fresh eyes, so that we might see Jesus at work in our lives, our context, our world. Very personal and well researched, from a pastor who is a scholar, this book offers us a fresh invite to think through scriptural hermeneutics for the formation of Christian mission. --David Fitch, author of Faithful Presence As an experienced practitioner in local church ministry, Rex Butts explains the significance of missional hermeneutics for the life of the local church as it reads the Bible together. . . . This invitation to read the Bible through the lens of God's mission provides a hopeful path to renewal in the local church. --John Mark Hicks, Lipscomb University How do we interpret Scripture, integrate it into our lives, and then minister in a way that reflects the kingdom of God within our contemporary culture? This most significant book on hermeneutics (the interpretation of Scripture) helps us understand this question. --Gailyn Van Rheenen, author of Missions If you are anything like me, you love to read books about Jesus. While we see the church continuing to struggle with our place and identity in North American culture, K. Rex Butts gives us a compelling picture of what it means to combine our Christology and ecclesiology. It turns out the two can't be separated! --Joshua Graves, author of How Not to Kill a Muslim In Gospel Portraits, K. Rex Butts bids us come to the Bible with new and fresh eyes, so that we might see Jesus at work in our lives, our context, our world. Very personal and well researched, from a pastor who is a scholar, this book offers us a fresh invite to think through scriptural hermeneutics for the formation of Christian mission. --David Fitch, author of Faithful Presence As an experienced practitioner in local church ministry, Rex Butts explains the significance of missional hermeneutics for the life of the local church as it reads the Bible together. . . . This invitation to read the Bible through the lens of God's mission provides a hopeful path to renewal in the local church. --John Mark Hicks, Lipscomb University

"""How do we interpret Scripture, integrate it into our lives, and then minister in a way that reflects the kingdom of God within our contemporary culture? This most significant book on hermeneutics (the interpretation of Scripture) helps us understand this question."" --Gailyn Van Rheenen, author of Missions ""If you are anything like me, you love to read books about Jesus. While we see the church continuing to struggle with our place and identity in North American culture, K. Rex Butts gives us a compelling picture of what it means to combine our Christology and ecclesiology. It turns out the two can't be separated!"" --Joshua Graves, author of How Not to Kill a Muslim ""In Gospel Portraits, K. Rex Butts bids us come to the Bible with new and fresh eyes, so that we might see Jesus at work in our lives, our context, our world. Very personal and well researched, from a pastor who is a scholar, this book offers us a fresh invite to think through scriptural hermeneutics for the formation of Christian mission."" --David Fitch, author of Faithful Presence ""As an experienced practitioner in local church ministry, Rex Butts explains the significance of missional hermeneutics for the life of the local church as it reads the Bible together. . . . This invitation to read the Bible through the lens of God's mission provides a hopeful path to renewal in the local church."" --John Mark Hicks, Lipscomb University"

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K. Rex Butts serves as the lead minister/pastor with the Newark Church of Christ in Newark, Delaware. He holds a doctor of ministry in contextual theology from Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois, and a master of divinity from Harding School of Theology in Memphis, Tennessee. He is married to Laura, and together they have three children.

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