{"id":140,"date":"2006-08-12T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2013-06-28T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T20:45:20","slug":"one%e2%80%99s-reading-a-mirror-of-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"One’s Reading, a Mirror of the Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I was sent the following quote from Oswald Sander’s Spiritual Leadership<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads. A leader’s reading is the outward expression of his inner hungers and aspirations.” (104)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How true it is! It is for this reason that in interviews (for pastors, professors, and other jobs) I always want to hear the man list authors he likes to read and books that have been influential to him. If one’s reading is a steady diet of growth technique books (for example), you likely do not have a theologian shepherd- which is what a church needs. One’s reading may be (indeed should be) broad, but there ought to be a clear theme of thinking deeply on the truths of Scripture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I was sent the following quote from Oswald Sander’s Spiritual Leadership. “If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads. A leader’s reading is the outward expression of his inner hungers and aspirations.” (104) How true it is! It is for this …<\/p>\n

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