“As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another” (Proverbs 27:17).
One of the most productive things a minister can do is to spend time with a good friend also in the Lord’s work 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. And persist.
A pastor friend and I were in my office one morning, bouncing ideas and stories off each other. My favorite thing to do.
We got off talking about the Amazon River. I have no idea how that happened.
That waterway is 90 miles wide at its mouth and its waters flow 200 miles out into the Atlantic. Keep that in mind for what follows.