... presuppositions and 'baggage' that we bring to the Biblical texts. But acknowledging it and then failing to address it is, the writer contends, the cause of much of the sad state of affairs in today's churches regarding inaccurate interpretation. Subjective views and opinions, bias, anachronism and ethnocentricism - eisegesis, if you will, rather than sound exegesis - cannot simply be dismissed as inevitable, if the church is to carry out Christ's commission of the church to preach the gospel of the kingdom 'in the whole world as a testimony to all nations' (Matthew 24:14). As Barr (1980) notes, properly conducted exegesis to discover the intended meaning of the original Bible texts is a crucial factor in a church community. He states: 'It is of vital importance that the primary place in the preaching and therefore in the thinking and meditation of the community should be taken by careful and detailed interpretation of ...

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