In the second artform of the Public Church Framework, Interpretation, we move into listening to God’s story and we spend time articulating our faith community’s core biblical and theological commitments. We reflect on how our theological commitments shape the way we hear our neighbor’s story, and how our neighbor’s story shapes our theological commitments.
How do we do it?
We’ve categorized interpretation into four different layers:
- Identify the most important things we heard in accompaniment.
- Identify our most important theological themes.
- Connect what we heard in accompaniment with theological themes that are similar.
- Ask ourselves how these theological themes help us understand what we heard in accompaniment and vice versa.
This blog post will focus on steps one and two, identifying the key themes from accompaniment and identifying the theological themes of our faith community.