When I was a pastoral apprentice under Pastor David Sunday, he taught me a most effective strategy of reading a book. While reading write down Five Questions about the material you are reading. Write down five challenges pertaining to what you have read. Write down five encouragements you gained from the reading.
That's a good idea. I'm all about reading tips...any strategy that helps you read more actively is worth trying. I like to mark in books (if I own them), underlining and highlighting and writing my reactions and thoughts (if I don't own the book, post-it notes work). Also, pre-reading really does help: look ahead at the subtitles/topic sentences of the section before you read it (and look through the book before you read it), so you know what's coming--so your mind can be more engaged.
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