Jacob from Olive Branch, Mississippi, right to ask this, Pastor John, I'm a 20-year-old

college student, I love to read theology, but sometimes I find it incredibly difficult

to do.

I especially enjoy reading Jonathan Edwards and John Owen.

Reading theology, however, is hard.

It's not like other genres where you can read large passages straight through.

I often find myself splitting my reading into short segments.

My question is, how do you, Pastor John, read the works of men like Owen and Edwards?

What tips do you have for people like myself who enjoy it, but also struggle with it?

If by struggle, Jacob, you mean when reading Owen and Edwards, you must slow down and take

it in smaller sections so that you can ponder it and digest it, then this is the kind

of struggle.

Reading everybody should have, should have, not must have, but should have.

That kind of reading is exactly the way I think Owen and Edwards should be read.

I say almost everybody, you know, almost everybody should read it like that, because there

are a few geniuses in the world, all right?

I know that, and some of them have asked me why I do certain things, because I'm a cripple.

I use a crutch because I'm a cripple, but I'm not like you, to a genius can read maybe

50 pages at a sitting, remember it all, understand it all, reproduce it all, use it all.

I'm not like that.

Neither are most human beings, so no one should measure himself by people like that.

Nobody should build seminary curricula for people like that.

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