Listen to this sermon by John Piper. In the first part of the sermon, he recites (from memory) about six chapters of the Bible – both old and new testament.
Many moons ago, I memorized Colossians and Romans 1-3 – it changed my life. Memorizing individual verses is good, but memorizing large chunks of scripture helps you really get your head around the theology (i.e. what the text says about God) and the authors intention.
Its been a long time, but this sermon has convinced me that I need to get back into serious scripture memorization. I’m thinking of starting with Psalm 32.
What about you? Have you done scripture memorization? What effect did it have?
