Is Reading THAT Important?

A few days ago I posted "six reasons why you should be reading if you are a Christian" or something like that. It was an article by Tony Carter. You can find it a few posts down below.

Dan Edelen has some helpful thoughts that serve as a good qualifier to what was written there. Here is a bit of what he says:

No, what troubled me more than anything was Carter’s reasoning for why all Christians should be avid readers:

[Reading] is the primary means through which God has chosen to communicate to his people.

In short, no. Not even close.

Now before I get a hundred Scripture verses tossed my way, let me make a very simple (and historically) accurate statement: The reason that reading CANNOT be the primary means through which God has chosen to communicate to His people is that for most of human history, very few people could read. Illiteracy is the primary state of most humans throughout civilization, and only the cultural and governmental elite possessed a literacy rate worth mentioning.

Read Dan's whole post here.