An Approach to Extended Memorization of Scripture
scripture memory July 25th. 2007, 9:03pmDr. Andrew Davis offers an aggressive approach to memorizing scripture.
Memorizing Books Is Better Than Memorizing Individual Verses
Jesus said, “Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” (Matthew 4:4) Paul said “All Scripture is God-breathed, and is useful for teaching rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness…” (2 Timothy 3:16) Memorizing individual verses tends to miss intervening verses that the individual does not feel are as significant. Furthermore, most of Scripture is written to make a case… there is a flow of argumentation that is missed if individual verses are memorized. Furthermore, there is also a greater likelihood of taking verses out of context by focusing on individual verses.
Memorizing a whole book seems nearly impossible to me but he makes a good case…maybe I’ll give it a shot!
Leave a comment if you think you might give it a go.
July 28th, 2007 at 7:05 am
I memorized the book of Hebrews a few years ago. It took me about a year. I was suffering from chronic insomnia at the time so maybe I could have done it more quickly. Right now I can’t quote mosts of it. And I find I don’t much like reading that book anymore!