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Today you'll hear a breakout session with Karen Swallow Prior on why, how, and what to

read. This message was originally delivered at TGC's 2019

National Conference in Indianapolis.

I'm here to talk about, let's see, what's the note title of my talk? How, why, and what to read, I think. I do want to tell you that I you know I ran out of space and time a little

bit at the what to read part and that's really hard for me because I've written books

about it. So I'll give you a little bit of what's at the end but I also I love

Q&A so I think there will be a good amount of time for me to take some questions and

answers I think that's allowed so I would love to for you to take some questions and answers. I think that's allowed. So I would love for you to be

thinking about some questions that you might have and that's my favorite part. That's the best part in

this Q&A. So, all right. So let's start with the why. Why read? Christianity is a religion of the word.

We Christians are a people of the book.

These distinctives have defined the faith from the beginning,

even before the age of print that has brought us so many books. if you don't believe that just go downstairs

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