“As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another” (Proverbs 27:17).
One of the most productive things any minister does is spend time with a good friend bouncing ideas and stories off each other.
Their wives might not appreciate what they are accomplishing–it looks a lot like fun and if she is the left-brained pragmatic one in the family, she can cite a list of a hundred things her preacher-husband could be doing. But let the ministers insist. Resist. Persist.
A pastor friend and I were in my office one morning, bouncing ideas and stories off each other. My favorite thing to do.
Somehow we began discussing the Amazon River. I have no idea how that happened.