This is a must-see video! This is 4 year old Orison Piper reciting Luke 2! Before you view the video read how Orison learned the entire chapter:
During the month of December, we decided to read Luke, Chapter 2 every night before bed with Orison. We would do our Advent Calendar reading for the night, then Orison would settle into his bed for Daddy to read the account of Jesus’s birth.
He got excited about the repetition and predictability of it. “Are we going to read Luke 2 tonight?!?!”
The effect of reading one section of Scripture every night for a month was surprising. Nothing we anticipated, really. But on December 23rd, Abraham got him started and did an experiment to see how many words he knew in the story.
Basically, he just kept going. And going.
He had the whole thing almost word-perfect from verses 1-21. We were STUNNED!”
Read the whole article on Extended Scripture Memory for Kids (and parents) here: http://thepipers.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/extended-scripture-memory-for-kids-and-parents/
John MacArthrur has suggested reading a book of the Bible (starting with a small book) every day for 30 days. I found it to be a great suggestion (that I need to follow more often)! It’s amazing how much of the Bible gets imprinted on your mind and heart from repeated readings! But I also really like this idea of reading a chapter every day for a month!
For another method of extended Bible Memory check out Ch 8 in John Piper’s Book When I Don’t Desire God: Fighting For Joy.
http://www.desiringgod.org/media/pdf/books_bwdd/bwdd_all.pdf
