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The late author and pastor Tim Keller recalls a conference breakout session that changed his life.

A presenter named Barbara Boyd promised some tips on reading the Bible \u2013 not a particularly cutting-edge subject.

Boyd provided these instructions: \u201cSit for 30 minutes and write down at least 30 things you learn from Mark 1:17.\u201d

Mark 1:17 just so happens to be one of those verses that pastors can mumble in their sleep. \u201c\u2019Come, follow me,\u2019 Jesus said, \u2018and I will make you fishers of men.\u2019\u201d Jesus told a group of fishermen they should start trawling for people.

Yeah, that\u2019s nice.  We\u2019ve all heard that one for years.

\u201cDon\u2019t think,\u201d Boyd went on, \u201cthat after 10 minutes and four or five things written down that you\u2019ve figured it out. Take the whole 30 minutes and try to get to 30 things observed.\u201d Keller decided to give it a shot.

He and the others in the room silently picked their way over, around, and through those familiar words.

After about 10 minutes, true to Boyd\u2019s prediction, Keller put down his pen. He was pretty sure he had seen everything there was to see.

\u201cI wanted to spend the rest of the time daydreaming, but everybody else looked like they were still working, so I picked up the pen and started pondering some more.

\u201cThen I began to notice some new things. If I imagined what the sentence would mean without<\/em> one of its words, it was easier to assess what unique meaning it brought to the sentence. That gave me the ability to get another two or three insights around each term.

\u201cThen I tried to paraphrase the whole verse, putting it into my own words. That showed me more levels of meaning and implications that I had missed.\u201d

At the end of the half hour, Boyd asked everyone in the group to circle the best insight or most life-changing observation they had gleaned from the text.

\u201cOK,\u201d she said, \u201chow many of you found this most incredible, life-changing thing in the first five minutes?\u201d

No one raised a hand.

\u201cTen minutes?\u201d No hands. \u201cFifteen minutes?\u201d A few hands. \u201cTwenty minutes?\u201d A few more. \u201cTwenty-five minutes?\u201d Many more.

Keller reflects, \u201cThat session changed my attitude toward the Bible and, indeed, my life.\u201d

We live in a culture in which people expect that a few quick glances will yield truth. 

Go deeper. 
Look longer. 
Stop texting and keep digging.
Don\u2019t rush through your opportunity to learn something new today.

Life is so much richer if we take the time to hear, really hear, what God might be saying to us.
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