Put in plain and simple terms, one is invited here to liken what you have heard in the text to the experience of faith and life in our world. That is a good idea. You find them among the poets, painters, novelists, playwrights, moviemakers, song writers and so on and not only among the famous. Be open to looking in unlikely places for your partners in bridge building. They may be there among your friends and the members of your church.
Daily life is the context of hermeneutics.
This area of concern is not exclusively the struggle of the exegete but it is also the struggle of the exegete. That is to say, the exegete is compelled by the subject matter of the texts themselves to stay involved in the matter of theological relevance and proclamation and not to leave such to someone else. In the context of Bi 216, development of this Step can only be made in preliminary fashion. One may decide to offer a variety of forms of contemporary address. The minimum requirement is a sermon in sentence outline form.