I felt a little pain of guilt when I encouraged you to go and buy the book "Simple Church". Although it I throughly enjoyed the read, I may have played the role of "pusher". You see, I feel that I have an addiction - not to any drug - but to books. To be more specific, I have an addiction of buying books.
I don't read all the books I buy. I think I will at the time of purchase. The truth is many books sit on my shelf unread. But - I keep buying new ones. Maybe by encouraging you to buy "Simple Church" that perhaps I was encouraging you do join me in my addictive behavior.
One of my goals this year is to quit buying new books until I have my "to read" pile finished. As soon as I say that, I'll do that after I buy this one book! That is the cycle of addictive behavior.
You know you want to quit the behavior, you just can't.
I think preachers have lots of such addictions that we need to clear ourselves of. What's your addiction?
That reminds me . . . bought a new book this morning on leadership. No, I really did! It was with a gift card. Does it count?
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