Hello Blogging World,
I have it figured out now why I hate to read so much. I know I SHOULD read. And I do. But where as some folks (like my wife) just pick up a book and read it from cover to cover, it takes me a little longer to digest what the author is attempting to convey to me. I have to put the book in certain places of the house in order to know I'll spend quality time reading. :) Can the men say "Amen"?
Why I hate to read:
My kids won't let me do it in peace.
When they go to bed, I don't want to.
Everybody Loves Raymond is funnier.
It's time consuming.
It makes me think.
It challenges me to change my actions.
How's that for honesty? Yet, over the past 6 weeks, I have completed two books. Yes ladies and gentlemen, you read that last line right. The man who has multiple personality disorders COMPLETED two books. I'm even reading a never-ending third novel which has 66 different books.
FIRST BOOK: "Simple Church" by Thomas Rainer. I've had it all wrong all along. In an overly complicated society, the last thing folks want are complicated weekends. Rainer has the statistics and Biblical insight that shows the church is killing folks with business. This rubs me the wrong way. I always thought a packed calender meant we were doing something! Programs equate to progress. Not so says this book in which I despise. I loathe. I hate with a Godly hatred.
Slow down. Do a few things with excellence instead of many things with mediocrity. Gather together and do simple church. Paul told the Corinthian church, "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."
But I love my statements, creeds, programs, and deep theological debates. It just seems to make me seem smarter. Yet, I could argue that Paul summed up his numerous letters to the Churches when he proclaimed, "For I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ, and him crucified".
Seems simple enough. It's about Jesus.
Pick up "Simple Church". I'll tell you about the other book I hate when I blog again next year.
Mr Anti-Reading,
jEFF m
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