“Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.” (1 Timothy 4:13)
“In this video age, Christians are in grave danger of forgetting the importance of reading. The word translated “reading” in this verse is the Greek anagnosis, a compound word meaning essentially “renewed knowledge.” A sermon or lecture is knowledge heard; an educational film or video is knowledge seen; but reading is knowledge that can be read, rehearsed, reviewed, and renewed again and again, until fully and securely learned. In fact, it is necessary for students to take notes, even when hearing a sermon or seeing a film, if they expect to retain any knowledge received by such means…The conscientious Christian must never cease to study and to grow in grace and knowledge (2 Peter 3:18).”
From Henry Morris, The Importance of Reading, http://www.icr.org/article/7812/.
