Friday, December 7, 2012

pastors should always be writing

Pastor Peter Schemm published a recent article in the Themelios Journal that encourages pastors to practice writing as a private spiritual discipline. He lays out six benefits of consistent writing (specifically for pastors but they apply to Christians in general):
  1. Writing helps to deepen the mind.
  2. Writing helps to clarify and refine your thinking.
  3. Writing helps us to find a suitable pace of life.
  4. Writing well requires quiet and solitude, both necessary in developing a healthy soul.
  5. Writing (i.e. copying) Scripture helps us to meditate on Scripture.
  6. Writing our prayers helps to make our prayer lives more meaningful.
I love writing as a way of communing with God. Unfortunately, it requires a discipline and quietness that I struggle to maintain.

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