Missional Church, Scripture and Tradition

The great gift/distraction of the internet to people who like to learn are sites like Wikipedia and Google Books. Thus it was a gift/distraction for me to be able to read part of the book Missional Church.

The final chapter had this quotation which I have been thinking about a lot the last three days:
"One of the most important and earliest ways in which the church's universal connectedness witnessed to the gopel was the process of canonization of scripture itself." (pg 251)

What the author is saying here is that in order to be missional, to organize both personally and corporately underneath the Missio Dei, the church essentially created the Bible. This is an alternative understanding compared to the usual discussion concerning the authority of Scripture. Though I feel those discussions are important I feel this different way of understanding it can be a better way forward both theologically and practically in terms of witness.

It also got me thinking about a lot of other things like how this can relate to Ordination, denomination and what is commonly referred to as the Wesleyan quadrilateral. There's a lot of potential here and I hope to explore it further.