It's been four years now since my book, Lit Launched, and it's sobering to have received

literally hundreds of emails from Christians over the years who have struggled to read

or who were helped by some of the encouragement in the book and books and literacy are powerful

tools in the Christian life as you well know Pastor John, and I recently perused your

little blue copy of The Weight of Glory, a CS Lewis paperback that you bought in the

fall of 1968 and I know you can still remember standing in the book store reading that book

for the first time and reading those first few pages and having your life changed by

that little blue paperback.

Great books have that power and I've been wanting to ask you speaking from a macro perspective,

what has been the role of books in your life?

Well, what a wonderful question, it would be hard to overstate the life-shaping impact of books

on my life, but I'm wired in such a way that I even feel uncomfortable saying that without

giving a reason for it, like I need to give a justification for why books can have such an

impact on my life.

If it's okay with you, I'm going to go back a little bit and lay a foundation and foundation

number one is the Bible as a book.

The implications of that fact are simply staggering.

When God contemplated all the possible ways that existed for him as an infinite, omnipotent,

whole wise God to transmit and preserve his revelation to the world, he chose a book.

And that's simply astonishing.

We have no other authoritative access to the knowledge of God and the way of salvation

and how to live a life pleasing to the Lord then through this book, either directly by

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