Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics by Mick Porter

Things Mick says,

It has dawned on me, particularly after working through several of Gordon Fee's books, just how deeply our hermeneutics affects our doctrines and our practice. And I reckon it's true that many Christians stand aghast at others' beliefs and point the "you don't accept the bible as God's word" finger, when the issue is really a difference in hermeneutics - a different methodology for interpretation rather than a different view on inerrancy.

It just so happens that this topic is most readily considered in the light of lots of real-world examples, so I'm going to briefly work through one such example: Titus 1:5-9, and the issue of requirements for eldership.

To be gospel-centred (and thus Christ-centred) must certainly be to place the event of the death and resurrection of Christ as the defining centre of our view of reality - and thus as the central driver of everything we do.

What do I mean by the "pastoral foundation?" I do not mean something to do with pastoring as a foundation, but rather seeking out the foundation of pastoral ministry - i.e. the gospel.

In his incredibly thought-provoking book "Convergence", Sam Storms makes this stunning and somewhat tongue-in-cheek comment about a certain golden rule:

Thou shall not do at all what others have done badly