Dr. Andrew Davis suggests that there are numerous advantages of memorising whole books of the Bible as opposed to individual verses. One of the key things that he says is that it’s easy to take verses out of context when remembering them in isolation. (I think there are verses in the Navigators system that do this.)
My memory is often elephant-like in it’s ability to retain and use individual Bible verses. I’m thinking that I might have a crack at remembering a 1 or 2 books of the Bible next year. There are some that I can already recite large slabs of such as Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians that might be good ones to start with.
Can you remember entire books of the Bible? Check out the following article for some good tips on how to do it well.
An Approach to the Extended Memorization of Scripture
(direct download)
(h/t JT)
That reminds me of that video on youtube where a Ryan Ferguson recited the whole book of Hebrews from memory with awesome inflections and emphasis.
here it is
I learned Ephesians 1-3 by heart a few years back with the intention of memorising the other 3 chapters later, but I never got round to it.
Might have a go on my month of holidays before college starts….
hey sam…
sounds like a good plan.
what version do you use?
i used to use niv, then switched to esv for scripture memory… but i’m now back at niv… the good thing is that i know some passages in both… but mostly just one or the other!
where will you be at church next year?