Building Faith Skills in Kids (2 of 5)
6 May
All posts in this series can be found here.
Skill #2: Personalize Scripture
Encourage children to memorize scripture so they can remember it and apply it in everyday situations
Knowing how critical the demonstration of parents and volunteers can be, it only makes sense that we lead the way in scripture memorization. And yet I slack significantly here.
I’m inspired to 2 action steps:
- Lead my kids in memorization by doing it also rather than just expecting them to do it
- Lead my volunteers to memorization to increase their effectiveness/encouragement
As a parent/volunteer/mentor to kids… how would you rate yourself on personalizing scripture?
We work with monthly memory verses around our house – the whole family – but we also have a few 'core' verses we repeat over and over again (Prov. 3:5,6 for example). These core verses are huge for how we do things at our house. But Sunday I was surprised to hear my 9 year old encouraging a new Christian with one of these verses. Can't overestimate the power of memorization!
I've found that I have memorized a lot of scripture myself just trying to help my kids do their memory verses for Awana!