Carrie B. Smith—master of divinity, 2008
Home congregation: Salem Lutheran, Stillwater, Okla.
Was memorizing an entire chapter of a book of the Bible difficult?
Memorization
isn’t hard for me because I have a music degree. I use the techniques
to memorize music to help me memorize Scripture. This includes learning
the text backward, which allows the ending to be that much stronger and
rehearsed.
I found it difficult to get into the mind of the
character. It was especially hard being Jesus. I kept thinking, “What
does he sound like?” and “Would Jesus be sarcastic?”
How are you applying what you’ve learned?
This
spring I’m teaching storytelling in my [intern] congregations and using
it during worship. How many of us can remember the boring memorizations
we did for confirmation? Using the Scripture by Heart technique allows
youth to get into the text without [memorizing] being a chore.
In
class we talked about how we’re living in a “postliterate” age of cell
phones andiPods. So to reach people, it’s all about allowing them to
hear the Scripture.
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