The Missional Church & The Necessity of Exegetical Preaching

Phil Steiger has a great piece on his blog entitled The Role of Scripture in the Missional Church.  His thoughts flow from a paragraph from Guder's, The Continuing Conversion of the Church, focusing on the role of Scripture within the community:

The Holy Spirit shapes God’s people for mission through the continuous encounter with the Scripture. Continuing conversion happens as the community “indwells” Scripture.

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Rigorous biblical learning must be the missional congregation’s priority. The congregation intentionally commits most of its time together to biblical study….This means that the members are learning to think Christianly; they are learning how to see the world through the eyes of Jesus’ they are becoming biblically literates in order to be effective translators of the gospel into their world (Continuing Conversion, 160).

While my formal studies will focus more on the use of Scripture in constructing a missional ecclesiology (i.e., what texts, images, metaphors are made primary?; are other texts, images, metaphors excluded unnecessarily?; are certain texts made subordinate to others?; etc.), I think that discussing the role of Scripture within the community is imperative.