b. You must establish and maintain a balanced reading program.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1971), pp. 178-179; cf. also pages 174- 184;
Charles Bridges, The Christian Ministry (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1967) pp. 33-50.
1) Devotional literature
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1971), pp. 174-175;
James W. Alexander, Thoughts on Preaching (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1975), p. 93 & 141.
2) Theological literature
James W. Alexander, Thoughts on Preaching (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1975), p. 168.
3) Biographical literature
4) Historical literature
5) Pastoral literature
6) Homiletical literature
7) Polemical literature
8) Technical literature
9) Contemporary/secular literature
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c. You must conserve the fruits of your reading by underlining, indexing, filing, etc.
C. H. Spurgeon, “The Necessity of Ministerial Progress,” in Lectures to My Students (Pasadena, TX: Pilgrim Publications, 1990), book II, p. 24.
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d. You must take heed to the following warnings:
1) Do not make reading a substitute for thinking.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1971), p. 181.
2) Do not make a status symbol out of the amount of reading you do.
3) Do not make reading a substitute for the other duties of the ministry.
Charles Bridges, The Christian Ministry (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1967), p. 49;
Thomas Murphy, Pastoral Theology (Audubon, NJ: Old Paths Publications, 1996), p. 93.