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I always encourage young guys who want to be pastors to make reading fiction a habit. There’s a practical benefit and a personal benefit. Practically, reading great fiction helps you dwell with words, which makes you a better communicator and a better listener. It fills your mind with images, narratives, and metaphors that then inform how you approach and communicate the strange world of the Bible to others. Personally—and this is just as important—it gives you some place to go. A healthy escape. Ministry can be so brutally exhausting emotionally, and reading, to some extent, allows you to suspend that stress and that burden for a while. It can help you get in touch with your own humanity when you’ve begun to feel like a hollowed-out shell.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:01:44 +0000

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