Is it possible to read the Bible in missional sense? Are there any proper method to study the Bible in Missiology? The Bible is very essential to Missiology. God of mission has sent the church, the koinonia he called, into the world. The basis of the commission is strictly based in the Bible. Hence, from the time of the early church, there were unique trends that the church treat certain verses as the premise of missions. Even without the direct citations, those verses implicitly express the missional paradigm of the age. However, ‘missional hermeneutic’ on the Bible not just provides a biblical foundation of Mission but supports the mission as a whole. Which that the Bible, from cover to cover, it is constructed into the grand narrative, the mission of God.The study describes the mission of God by focusing on the concept of ‘covenant’ which is the repeating biblical narrative. The Idea of covenant is a major subject that forms the identity and the world view of Israel. From the covenant of Noah to the New Covenant in New Testament including the covenant of Abraham, Mount Sinai, and David, the idea is integrated into the grand narrative, the mission of God. Each covenant is not discontinuous from another but related since they were given according to the context of Israel. They were reconfirmed and reapplied in a large extent. In the Bible, the idea of covenant, the mission of God forms the core like the central nervous system. This paper proves the consistent idea of mission of God in the Bible by briefing the formation and the reconfirmations of the covenant. Jesus Christ was sent to ‘Yes’ all the promises(Cor II 1:20). God in Jesus of the Nazareth gave the suffering servant who is the descendent of Abraham blessing all races, who is the prophet overwhelms the Moses in bringing the grace and the truth into the world, who is the son of David reigning with righteousness endlessly, and who is the covenant gathering his people to him. Jesus who resurrected indeed reflected his identity to the Bible and also opened the eyes of his disciples who shall go forth to all nations with the power of the spirit(Lk 24:45-47). He is the only one who has the right to open the scroll that represents the entire history for he completed the mission of God(Rev 5:9). Therefore, every hermeneutic readings on the Bible must be messiahnic and missional. The ultimate object of the grand narrative must be found in Jesus Christ who died on the cross and resurrected from the deads. Missional hermeneutic overcomes multi-cultural hermeneutic and post-modern hermeneutic. Christian missions has experienced the challenges from post modern world for decades. The Bible rejoices diversity and approves the various human cultures with praise. Post-modernism also welcomes such characteristics of the Bible(cultural, local, relational, narrative). However, it limits those contexts into local and particular and generalize those as a whole. There are no narrative that includes all of them. There are no concept of the truth that integrates all the meaning of life with wholistic consistence. Diversity in hermeneutics does not affirm to a free licence to pluralism or relativism. Missional hermeneutic is different from them for it integrate the diversities, localities, and particularities into the grand narrative. The mission of God is a enormous story that clearly shown from the creation to the new creation in the Bible. It is the universal narrative that affirms the ultimate meaning to the human race that carries the particular cultural diversities. Missional hermeneutic is also a ecumenical hermeneutic since it contributes in church unity through biblical interpretation.

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