“So this is the simplified version of The Mission of God, then?” is a comment I have heard quite often while working on this book, and have needed to correct, and do so again here. It is true that a few years ago I published The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative1 and, true, that is a rather big book. The difference between it and this one, however, is much more than just their relative size. In The Mission of God I was arguing for a missional hermeneutic of the whole
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