In a recent post, Bob Kauflin wrote,
“I once heard someone say that books don’t change people — sentences do. If I glean two or three sentences from a book that affect the way I think and the way I live, that’s time well invested. So I read.”
I find it virtually impossible to read without a highlighter and pencil in hand — highlighting the key ideas, starring key ideas, and writing down interactive thoughts, marking the outline, and noting passages and sentences to place in my quotation file.
Sometimes I stop immediately and jot down a sentence of comment on a file card. As I did yesterday. The sentence that has been transforming me over the past 30 hours or so is from Joel Beeke in Reforming Pastoral Ministry:
“Pray in response to the least impulse to do so.”
I know. It’s not particularly erudite but it is a godly and Biblical exhortation. One I needed and need to hear and heed.
(HT: Challies)
Words of Grace 