Tonight I'm rereading one of my favorite books by John Stott -- The Living Church.
I love this book! What a model author John Stott is to us. He was incapable of writing anything without seriously thinking through its doctrinal content. Equally, when he was addressing a serious academic issue, he was incapable of writing about it in an unapplied way. What he wrote had to be of some use to the church. Such is the position I have adopted in recent years. That's one reason I've made very few recent contributions to journals, which have a very small circulation and barely any influence on the Christian public at large, whereas a blog post can be read by thousands of people overnight. I feel that any time the Lord should give me for writing in the winter of my life is best employed in doing something for the church at large. I hope I don't regret that decision. But so far I am happy!