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Hi Pastor,
For a reader like me, the footnotes you
include provide a fast and efficient way to verify that a point you made was
based on fact rather than some slanted opinion. Secondly, footnotes and quotes
you include let me see the original without taking the time, trouble, or expense
of perhaps having to locate and purchase some book to double check you. Google
knows a lot, but not everything. I am able to focus on getting the point you are
making without the diversions mentioned above.
An example of the former:
I'm reading something you wrote and you state that Mark Jeske said some
ridiculous thing. Not being familiar with the biggest embarrassment of the WELS
-- Mark Jeske -- I may respond with a thought that this Jackson guy is out
grinding really big axes, and mentally diminish or eliminate what it is that you
wrote. However, your handy footnote or direct quote lays the naked truth out
right before my eyes. Jeske actually did say that! And he's even proud of
it.
An example of the latter:
You provide a quote from Lenski in your writing that I find very insightful. I
am not able to afford the Lenski commentary, or even a single volume. The quotes
you include are absolute jewels to me.
Java Dude
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| From Norma Boeckler's Art |
GJ - My books are aimed almost completely at the laity. I decided to use a large share of my best and worst quotations in Thy Strong Word, because few have access to so many books. Any time I found new quotations on justification or the efficacy of the Word, I copied them into my Megatron database.
To compile 3,000 quotations for Megatron, I would borrow books from pastors, buy new ones, and comb through my old ones. Some sent me materials to use, publications that very few would ever see because of their temporary nature. As Johnny 5 said in Short Circuit, "More input."
