Never stop learning. When a tree ceases to grow, that tree is dead! That will be true of you. Oh, you might be still walking and doing stuff, but so do the walking dead in zombie movies. That is hardly how you want to be. Leaders are learners. You can even learn from those you do not totally agree with—remember that everyone may not be as brilliant as you, yet still have something to say. After all, a broken clock is right twice a day! With some authors and preachers, you must eat the meat, but spit out the bones! I understand that we are warned of those, “always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (2 Timothy 3:7 NKJV). Yet, but a little later, Paul instructs student Timothy, “ “But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” (3:14-15). What makes the difference? In the former case, one judges truth by the world’s distorted lens, while in the latter, we judge truth by the Word’s eternal lens.
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