Herman Who?

If you have listened to The Way of the Master Radio at all over the last 3-6 months, you know that they've been talking about a product they were working on called “Herman Who”, a look at Biblical hermeneutics. Well, it is finally out and available for order. However, it is a quite pricey $20, and it is a single DVD, 80 minutes of talk.

Hermeneutics is very important. The modern Church has been led astray by poor Biblical interpretation, disregard for context, and historical illiteracy. People hold doctrinal views based on single Bible verses ripped out of context. I'm talking about pastors, people who should have the training to know better. Lay people are too complacent to read the Bible themselves and understand it. They think if their pastor says so, it must be.

It is so important to have at least a basic understanding of how to read and interpret the Bible. When you run into a verse that confuses you, you should be able to use parallel passages to resolve the confusion.

With that said, I want to offer another introduction to hermeneutics that I found invaluable. Twin City Fellowship, a church here in the Minneapolis area, had a ten week course on hermeneutics that ended about two weeks ago. Each session is about 90 minutes long, which brings a grand total of 15 hours of teaching. The class is posted in the web here, and includes the powerpoint slides. Video of the class was recorded, but is not yet available. Not only is it a great class, but it's free too!