Leadership Tips & Training Scripture Memory Challenge

Last month I invited leaders and members to join me on a one-year scripture memory journey.  The journey entails the challenge to memorize one verse a week for 52 weeks and be able to quote all 52 verses at the end of 2006.  To help with this challenge, each month in the First Place Newsletter, I will share with you practical ways to implement scripture memory into your life.  The goal of this journey is not necessarily knowledge, but application.  Let’s memorize with purpose!

First, let’s start with the purpose behind memorizing scripture.  This month you will select one verse per week to memorize.  Select verses from your First Place Bible study, sermon notes, or from a daily devotional that will meet one of these purposes:

    * Overcome temptation  Psalm 119:11
    * Renew the mind  Romans 12:2
    * Character development  2 Peter 1:4,
    * Answered prayer  John 15:7
    * Direction and guidance  2 Timothy 3:16

If you would like to join the one-year Scripture Memory challenge, there is still time!  Contact me with your name, email address, mailing address, and the church where you lead or attend a First Place class.

Enjoying the Journey!

Nancy Taylor


Nancy Taylor is the First Place Leadership Training Director and joined the First Place staff in 1997. Nancy teaches leadership principles to First Place Leaders throughout the country and at Houston's First Baptist Church where she coordinates all the First Place groups. Nancy also speaks at First Place workshops, rallies, retreats, and conferences, where she delights her audiences with humor and encourages them with boldness. She writes a monthly article, which includes helpful tips for leaders, for the First Place E-newsletter, and was a contributing writer to the Today is the First Day devotional book. Nancy is the resident First Place Bible Concordance because of her love for Scripture memory.