Dr. John Walton has put his finger on a significant problem in much curriculum used in children’s ministry… bad hermeneutics. According to Dr. Walton, some of the common hermeneutical errors in children’s curriculum are:
1) Promotion of the trivial.
2) Illegitimate extrapolation.
3) Reading between the lines.
4) Missing important nuance.
5) Focus on people rather than God.
Are we teaching our children rightly?
Are they learning to interpret the Word of God as God Himself intends it to be interpreted?
You can read the whole article here http://zondervan.typepad.com/koinonia/2008/08/hermeneutics-an.html
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