6.18.2008
As a leader you should be reading A LOT. I know guys who talk a great deal about wanting to read more, but every leader I see that excels, moves, grows and reaches those who are far from God… READS. So it prompts me to ask, “What are you reading? What is it that gets your blood pumping when you sit down and take it in?”
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on that note, i learn more from fiction than i have ever gleamed from non-fiction.
Not many "Christian" books have done it for me lately though. It seems hard to find good material.
i agree. i was lied to for a long time when someone told me that if you want to be the best leader then you need to read the leadership books. the John Maxwell's the Good to Great's, and all that jazz. not that they are bad, but to me, fiction brings fresh air and life.
there is really really good non-fiction stuff...but hard to come by.
when you are done with LOTR, you should totally read Children of Hurin, its a great Tolkien book.
i think Joe Hielman also subscribes to this school of thought.
I have been reading a lot of Christian stuff lately, but stuff that has really challenged the status quo. Some Neal Cole (organic church stuff), and have just started Allen Hirsch's "The Forgotten Ways." Also have some Richard Dawkins and N.T. Wright in the hopper... Also just read a sweet business book called "The Back of the Napkin", which is all about solving problems through pictures. Completely applicable to the church.