How You Can Jump-Start Your Bible Memorization in 2024 (Andrew Davis)

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🗓️ 1 January 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Andrew Davis encourages Christians that not only is Bible memorization infinitely valuable, but everyone is wholly capable of doing so. Andrew Davis is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Durham, North Carolina, and the founder of Two Journeys Ministry. He is also a visiting professor of church history at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a council member of the Gospel Coalition, and a former trustee of the International Mission Board. He is the author of several books, including 'How to Memorize Scripture for Life: From One Verse to Entire Books'. Read the full transcript of this episode. If you enjoyed this episode be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show!

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0:00.0	Memorizing the Bible is one of those things that we all know is important and want to be better at,
0:10.1	but nevertheless tend to really struggle with. If we're honest, memorizing just a single chapter,
0:15.8	much less something longer, can feel all but impossible to us. But what if it isn't? What if there is a way,
0:23.2	a way for any Christian to begin to hide God's word in his or her heart for life? My guest today
0:29.3	is Andy Davis, and he's memorized 45 books of the Bible over his life. Throughout our conversation,
0:35.6	he shares encouragement for every Christian to begin their journey
0:38.6	of Bible memory, from practical advice on where to start, to how long to spend on Bible memory
0:44.3	each day, to reminders of how valuable and incredibly transformative scripture memory really is.
0:50.8	Andy also shares his story for how he started memorizing his first book of the Bible and
0:55.0	shares the difficulties that he's faced along the way and how he's pushed through.
0:59.0	Andy serves as senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Durham, North Carolina, and the founder of Two Journeys Ministry.
1:06.0	He's also a visiting professor of church history at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary,
1:11.6	a council member for the Gospel Coalition, and a former trustee of the International Mission Board.
1:16.6	He's the author of How to Memorize Scripture for Life, from one verse to entire books from Crossway.
1:23.6	Let's get started.
1:25.6	Well, Andy, thank you so much for joining us. Way. Let's get started.
1:33.0	Well, Andy, thank you so much for joining me on the Crossway podcast.
1:35.8	Well, Matt, it's a joy to be with you. Looking forward to the conversation.
1:42.4	So your journey with Bible memory started over 40 years ago. And I want to get into that journey a little bit in our conversation today but before we go there
1:44.8	I wonder if you can speak to the person right at the beginning here who for some reason hit
1:49.6	play but they're already thinking oh no are you going to spend the next 30 minutes making me feel
1:54.8	guilty for why I don't memorize the Bible absolutely not that's not what it's about. I have such a joy in the word of God
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