Elevate Sunday - Parent Connection - 10.6.2019


Objective:
Students will understand the importance of memorizing Scripture and put what they are memorizing into practice.


Key Scripture:
Psalm 119:9


Key Thought:
To make it stick, practice it!
 

Lesson Summary:
Our lesson tonight is the fourth lesson of a series called “Game Plan: A Strategy for Spiritual Growth.” We compared memorizing Scripture with memorizing a playbook.

Memorizing Scripture is one of the most difficult spiritual disciplines. It’s very difficult to get motivated, and it doesn’t help that we have so many other things that we constantly have to keep in our minds: soccer practice times, anniversaries, birthdays, passwords, etc. Tonight, students learned two reasons why it is important to memorize Scripture.

1. Scripture memory helps you defeat the enemy.
Just as memorizing a playbook can help you defeat your opponent in the game, so Scripture memory helps us to defeat sin. Jesus used Scripture to defeat Satan’s lies. However, Scripture memory is not a mechanical process that automatically defeats sin. It also trains us in understanding and wisdom for the challenges we will face.

2. Scripture memory helps you know and enjoy God.
Just as memorizing a playbook helps you better understand and enjoy the game, so Scripture memory helps us better know God and His ways. By constantly having Scripture in our mind, we learn to have a biblical worldview.

We may know that it is important to memorize Scripture, but what is even more important is to practice what is memorized. In fact, this is the best way to commit it to memory. We know from other things that the more we practice, the more we understand, and the more it becomes solidified in our brain. Students were encouraged to practice what they’re memorizing and not just memorize to check off a box in the Creative Discipleship Program.

How is your Scripture memory? What barriers keep you back from memorizing Scripture? Work with your student to develop a plan to memorize Scripture. Be sure to use the Word of Life Creative Discipleship Program and the Quizlet App to help you. Maybe you and your student can do it together. There is no method that works for everyone and this isn’t another box to check. Start with one verse, put it into practice and see where it leads.

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