Things Mick says,

It has dawned on me, particularly after working through several of Gordon Fee's books, just how deeply our hermeneutics affects our doctrines and our practice. And I reckon it's true that many Christians stand aghast at others' beliefs and point the "you don't accept the bible as God's word" finger, when the issue is really a difference in hermeneutics - a different methodology for interpretation rather than a different view on inerrancy.

It just so happens that this topic is most readily considered in the light of lots of real-world examples, so I'm going to briefly work through one such example: Titus 1:5-9, and the issue of requirements for eldership.

To be gospel-centred (and thus Christ-centred) must certainly be to place the event of the death and resurrection of Christ as the defining centre of our view of reality - and thus as the central driver of everything we do.

What do I mean by the "pastoral foundation?" I do not mean something to do with pastoring as a foundation, but rather seeking out the foundation of pastoral ministry - i.e. the gospel.

In his incredibly thought-provoking book "Convergence", Sam Storms makes this stunning and somewhat tongue-in-cheek comment about a certain golden rule:

Thou shall not do at all what others have done badly