Practicum Paper
1. After gain such insight into back grounds I believe that it is detrimental for every man that was to govern or shepherd a flock to be well equipped in the area of biblical back grounds. Although it is not a sufficient, it is very necessary to gain the understanding that comes from the text. Background is also another crucial hermeneutical tool. That can give us proper insight to the true understanding of what the author was trying to say to the readers of that day. And if the readers in this modern day can get the real message that the original author was trying to convey to the modern day audience. I believe that pastors and teachers should get the highest level of back ground although history is not the only way to interpret the passages of in scripture but the background from non-canonical and socio-cultural standpoints can give the readers a better way to look at how and why the scriptures were constructed and format of the passages. These studies of backgrounds just show us why these passages were spoken to the specific passages and then allow the teachers to correctly apply it to their flock. But first pastors/ teacher need to have the most holistic meaning before they can deliver a message of scripture because it is God holy and divine word and they have to be careful on what they are trying to say because if they do not understand what the author is trying to say to the specific audience then the message cannot be properly deliver to Gods intended audience, and then because false teaching and sends the followers of Christ astray because they did not have the proper meaning because there was no broad study of why this passage was written and why it was constructed and formatted in that fashion.
2. There are many ways that the Backgrounds can help and assist teaching and pastoring ministries. This mostly helps with the leaders getting a better understand of the overall meaning in the passages of the bible. And the only way is use