We once had an associate pastor, Chris Griggs, who poured efforts into leading and developing the Sunday School teachers of Curtis Baptist Church. He told us that one of his first steps when preparing a lesson was to read the scripture passage he was to teach on. No surprise there, right? He would read it not once, or even twice, but ten times. “Do this at the outset of your lesson prep,” he said, “Don’t stop and take any notes, during these readings. Just read it.”
After a fashion, I do learn things this way. While too time-consuming for routine practice I prefer to memorize the passages. To commit one verse after another to memory requires repetition–more than the ten readings Griggs suggested. During (and after) these events, the Holy Spirit fits the scriptures to various snapshots in and around my life.
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