Why Read Books? - Christian Research Institute

So why is reading books any better than reading tweets or wall posts? Well, sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes, you need to put down your book, if only to think about what you’re reading, what you think about what you’re reading. But a book has two advantages over a tweet. First, the person who wrote it thought about it a lot more carefully. The book is... See more

Many who read this book are folk who hear much of the Bible at church and perhaps again in a midweek Bible study. You may often listen to recorded Bible teaching and Christian music as well. You may read the Scriptures almost every day, and possibly other Christian books like this one. As a result you encounter a torrential amount of God’s truth (n

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Your experience does not measure up to your expectation, so perhaps you conclude that you are the problem, that maybe you are a second-rate Christian. The reality is that you may not be the problem at all. The problem may simply be your method. I know, for example, many people who read the Bible every day. They may even read multiple chapters of Go

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This personal involvement in creating the meaning of a book naturally engages our reflection and discernment, our critical sense and moral faculties. And, by engaging them, reading also stretches and strengthens them, helping them to develop and expand, to become more responsive, not only more attuned and accurate but also more supple, more flexibl... See more

conditioned to read a text to gain information so we can better control the outcomes of our life. Knowledge is a form of power, and we often believe that if we can gain more knowledge, we may be able to gain more power and control over our life, therefore shaping our life in our desired direction. Again, there is a time and place for this type of r

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