Continuing our conversation from the last two episodes, episode 274 and 275, does this

digital revolution and the abundance of Bible apps that we have access to today?

Does this undermine our need for Bible memorization?

So if I know there's an important verse in the Bible about a vine and a branch, but I can't

remember the details, I don't need to memorize the details because I can just pull out my

app and do a quick search just for those two key words and in a moment the verse appears.

Do you think Pastor John that digital Bible access will undermine Bible memory and should

it?

Absolutely not.

That argument would proceed on the assumption that the only or the chief motive for memorizing

scripture is the functional availability to use in some context.

Well that's a good motivation.

It's just not the only one or I would say not the main one.

The main one is what happens to your mind when it is structured and here I think things

go very deep Tony, I don't know, I'm not a neuro scientist, I don't know how the

synapses and chemicals and electricity in the brain work but I know enough to know that

the memorizing of anything or the habituation of the mind to anything is a physiological

and a spiritual phenomenon and the mind is being shaped.

So when Paul said do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing

of your mind, that's amazing, I mean that's one of those powerful statements in the world

that your mind that God has given you is to be renewed and I would say the primary

way that happens is immersion in the mind of God and one of the primary ways immersion

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