Reading reminds, refreshes, and reinforces. When the fresh seminary graduate begins pastoring, when the demands of counseling and planning meetings and checking off items on the to-do list threaten to undo you, it is more than a little difficult to sustain one’s facility in Greek. Long ago I learned a trick that can help the pastor—on four or five days a week spend ten to fifteen minutes in the Greek text just reading. Open up your Greek New Testament, have a translation
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