The Mission of God II

The Mission of God opens with the bold claim that 'Mission is what the Bible is all about'. He wants to ask 'can we take mission as a hermeneutical matrix for our understanding of the Bible as a whole?' p. 32

But mission is a rather rubbery word. Has Wright succeeded in taming it? A little further on we read:

Down through the centuries it would probably be fair to say that Christians have been good at their messianic reading of the OT but inadequate ... at their missional reading of it. We read the OT messianically or christologically in the light of Jesus; that is, we find in it a whole messianic theology and eschatology that we see as fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth. In foing so we follow his own example, of course, and that of his first followers and the authors of the Gospels. But what we have so often faikled to do is to go beyond the mere satisfaction of ticking off so-called messianic predcitions that have 'been fulfilled'. And we have failed to go further because we have not grasped the missional significance of the Messiah. p. 30

It seems by 'mission' Wright means something like 'purpose'... so, the missional perspective is always asking 'what is God doing here' 'what is his purpose or his plan?'